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Originally Posted by oldjudge
I always look at tanning of the cardboard as a sign that a card is an M101-5. This card does not have that although the Standard Biscuit pictured below does. My guess is that the Morehouse baking cards were late M101-5s--ie those issued concurrently with M101-4s, issued using M101-4 type cardboard.
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Jay I agree that the toned or tanned cards were printed on somewhat different stock that either started out that color or aged differently than the others, and that this seems to appear only on m101-5 related issues, although even those show varying degrees of “goldening”. This still leaves the question as to whether one should look at printing date or distribution date. We don’t know when a handful of the m101 advertisers first put their cards out to the public, but we do know that Mendelsohn offered m101-4 blank-backs in the April 6, 1916 Sporting News paper and that Holmes to Homes was the first known sponsor to advertise on April 12, 1916, with others to follow in the next two weeks or so. So it seems that technically a collector could have acquired an m101-4 blank back before an m101-5 Holmes to Homes, and that Morehouse also could have distributed even earlier than Holmes to Homes, even though the latter is toned as well.
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