Picked up a Red Cross James J. Jeffries for a whopping $30. Makes for only 11/50 on my Red Cross set, but 159/200 for the T219 master set. Red Cross pickups are extra fun now because pretty much any new one completes a pose run.
Jeffries has a C52, 4 different T218's (Hassan and Mecca from each factory), and the 4 T219's, with Honest Long Cut in two colors, Miners Extra and Red Cross. Many T219's slightly change the back text to cut out a handful of words to make everything fit, Jeffries' card for example dropping the "recently" in context of the Johnson fight. Jeffries' card is one of only a couple though that update the fight catalog on the bottom portion, adding in his loss to Johnson. The C52 is not easy, but the Red Cross is the hardest and smallest. Why is a mystery to me, it wasn't a huge brand but it really was not some obscure regional brand as the rarity of the RC T cards alone would suggest.
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