We had the pleasure of previewing the upcoming offering of
five T215 Pirate cards in the upcoming spring REA auction. One of the five cards is really intriguing and I wanted to get the thoughts of others.
As most people know the T215 Red Cross and Pirate cards were created from existing T206 artwork. Both of these sets updated some subjects to reflect new team designations from the time of their T206 selection.
Harry Lord was selected to be in the T206 set in early 1909, when he played for the Boston Red Sox, and his team designation and artwork reflect this. On Aug. 9, 1910, Lord was traded by the Red Sox to the Chicago White Sox. When his card was printed with the T215-1 Red Cross set his team designation was updated to Chicago Amer.
This brings us to the T215 Pirate to be auctioned by REA. His team designation is a bold Boston Amer., but a faint Chicago Amer. can be seen on the card. So if they were simply reusing the T206 image, why would a Chicago Amer. be visible? If they updated his image for the T215-1, why would they revert back to Boston Amer.?
I find this card really fascinating and would love to hear others thoughts on this anomaly.
