1923-24 Walter Mails Card Game

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Posted By: don fluckinger

A reader just found a red set of these cards and it had 55 cards in it according to the instructions.

We're trying to figure out what gives and why we are assuming both red and blue backed sets have 56.

Is there a 56th card or something that isn't documented? Anyone, if someone has collected or dealt/sold these and can add a detail or two...Check out the post at

http://standardcatalog.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/55-or-56-cards-to-blue-and-red-1923-24-walter-mails-game/

if you have any knowledge to add to this discussion and thanks!

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Don, the Blue Back set was the first one produced and the Reds came later. (The blues came in a blue box just as the reds came in a red box). I had a complete blue set and it had all players and actually had a duplicate Howard Ehmke, but that was probably just a production mistake, which might be what happened here with this collectors set. I heard from someone that they had never seen a Uhle before but I did have one in the blue set I had.

I still have around 30 of the blue's (which are MUCH tougher to find than the common red backs). The blues were obviously done first as some data on front changed and in all cases the red set had the updated information.

I initially reported the changes in the text and info on front a few years ago on this forum (and corrected the date of issue) and that is where Bob Lemke and his staff got the information that he states in the set header in the SCD book.

A search for this set on this site should yield the earlier thread with the information I uncovered.

-Rhett Yeakley

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Here is the link to the other post from 2005...
http://www.network54.com/Forum/153652/message/1112829636/WG7+Walter+Mails+Game+Set-+New+Set+information

-Rhett

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Posted By: don fluckinger

as in, how many make a set? Pardon me if the material says this and I missed it

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Don, if I remember correctly there were 56 different in my set along with the duplicate they gave me. There was also an instruction card that has the same back as the player cards.
-Rhett

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Here is an example of one of the more modest changes from the sets... Blue back Mostil on left and Red Back Mostil on right...
-Rhett

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Posted By: don fluckinger

Great----thanks!