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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

In 1911 American Lithographic (ALC) started producing their Gold Border sets. A Military series
of 50 cards (T80) and a BaseBall series of 210 cards.

Shown here for comparison are 2 Subjects of the the T80 set and a T205 Minor Leaguer card.
I'd venture to say the same artist created these designs, embellishing the Military men with a
higher quality of artwork than the BB guys.






I have a feeling that we can attribute the short-printing of T206 cards with LENOX and UZIT
backs in early 1911 to ALC printing their new T80 cards with LENOX & UZIT backs. The T80's
can also be found with OLD MILL and TOLSTOI backs.

I sold my T205 set 10 years ago; but, I kept the 12 Minor Leaguers as I thought their design
was really "cool". Here is the checklist of these 12 cards......

Doc Adkins (Baltimore)
Henry Batch (Rochester)
Forrest Cady (Newark)
Jimmy Collins (Providence)
John Dunn (Baltimore)
James Frick (Newark)
Charles Hanford (Jersey City)
Wyatt Lee (Newark)
Lewis McAllister (Newark)
George Merritt (Buffalo)
John Nee (Newark)
James Phelan (Providence)


Excellent artwork and a neat little T205 sub-set to collect....Show & Tell of your T205 Minor's ?

Throw in some scans of your T80's, too.....just for fun.


Thanks to Jim Rivera for my T80 cards.


T-Rex TED