E Card Question

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Posted By: david 

I was looking through the checklist for the major e-cards and was wondering why walter johnson is missing from all of the sets?

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Posted By: John

I don’t collect a lot of E-cards but I’m pretty sure he’s in the following sets maybe even some others too. Hope this helps.

E120 (American Caramel)& E121
E123 (Willard’s Chocolates)?
E126 (American Caramel)
E135 (Collins McCarthy)
E145 (CJ’s)
E210 (York Caramels)
E220 (National Caramels)
E253 (Oxford Confectionary)
E271 (Darby Chocolates)
E300 (Plows Candy)
E-unc (Baseball Bats)
E91 (Fakes)

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Posted By: Brian McQueen

I think it had a lot to do with the team he played for. The Washington Senators were for the most part, a pretty bad team during the years of 1909-1912 when many of these sets were released. Their players, Johnson included, weren't featured in many of these sets. Since so many "e" sets are between 30-50 cards, I think they wanted to take the more prominant players from the better teams in the league.

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Posted By: Paul

I've wondered the same thing for a long time. Johnson's not in a single set from E90 through E106, except for the E91 fake designs. It may be true that this was because the Senators were such a bad team, but I'm not convinced. There were some third rate players in some of these sets, so it still seems strange to me.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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Posted By: 823dek

The picture of Walter Johnson in the e91 set is indeed his image, though other player poses may have more than 1 name - the Johnson in that set (opinion )is very classic !

The backs are also unique and very vintage looking, it sorta throws daggers in those who do like or collect them ! Thanks

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Posted By: brian p

The Walter Johnson card in the E91C set is actually the same artwork that was used for the Rube Waddell card in the E91A set, and used for Krause of the Athletics in the E91B series. Having researched this set versus photos of the players, the artwork on this card is actually a fairly decent depiction of Rube Waddell (I don't have one of these cards in front of me to confirm this, but my memory says so, so I won't argue with it). Any card in the E91C set (like the Walter Johnson) will not have artwork that is based on the player's likeness. They may have used the Waddell artwork for Johnson because it perhaps looked somewhat like the Big Train.

Brian

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Posted By: 823dek

see the t206 portrait and tell me that you do not see a likeness of the e91 in the face- it is never arguing , just merely opinion !