Hoblitzell Variations - four or five?
 

Posted By: <b>Rich Rubin</b><p>We all know there are the no-stats, no-Cin, name correct and name incorrect Hoblitzell variations. But there are two distinctly different types of "cin" cards, as Lew Lipset mentioned in his Encyclopedia. There's the hand-lettered type (I believe the more abundant), and the "machine" lettered type. I haven't found one back brand to bear both of these types, but a lot of study hasn't been made. <br />I believe these should be considered 2 diff. variations. Thoughts? <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1140063892.JPG">

Hoblitzell Variations - four or five?
 

Posted By: <b>J Levine</b><p>Hmm...<br /><br />I own two similar examples of the cards above but I do not think one is hand lettered and one is typeface. I believe both are typefaces, just differnt fonts. <br /><br />It is interesting to note that you can see that the Hoblitzell with 2 L's seems to be a corrected version...both cards seem to have the final "L" added slightly offcenter to the rest of the name on the card.<br /><br />Joshua

Hoblitzell Variations - four or five?
 

Posted By: <b>Seth B.</b><p>Is everyone on crazy pills, or are those two backs the same type?? Can someone explicitly tell me what difference we're looking for here?

Hoblitzell Variations - four or five?
 

Posted By: <b>Martin Neal</b><p>The difference is the fonts used when they added the 'cin" after the 1908. The biggest diiference in the two is that one of them is missing the "dot" in the "i". That's also confirmed in the Hoblitzells I have.

Hoblitzell Variations - four or five?
 

Posted By: <b>Seth B.</b><p>I see that now, thanks.