Show Some Eggs

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Posted By: Seth B.

I just picked up my first T-Unc Tango Egg card: Bescher, of course, but it's in super nice condition. It's really cool seeing a baseball card with an egg advertisement on the back! I just need two bread cards to stack it between, and I've got a breakfast sandwich.

I read the previous thread about Tangos, but I thought I would start a new thread on these cards. I have two questions for experts out there:

1. How where these cards distributed? Has anyone ever seen a Tango Egg carton (were there even cartons in 1916?), or were they possibly mail-in redemptions?

2. Why are Jennings and Bescher the most commonly found? Any ideas on this? Was the family that had the big find fans of the two players?

Thanks!

Oh, and might as well start a show-me thread, too. I'll get a pic of my Tango in soon as my scanner is up.

-Seth B.

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Posted By: dennis

here is the scoop
http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2007/358.html

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Posted By: Seth B.

Thanks, Dennis! I've seen this REA write-up before. Still, though, wondering if anyone has ever seen a Tango Eggs carton, or if anyone knows how these cards were actually distributed...

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Posted By: leon

All good questions and ones I haven't seen answers to. Here is the first or second most common (I think)......Maybe Bescher is most common?

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Posted By: Bob

Strange that they used a Joe Tinker picture and slapped a Buck Weaver caption of front, ditto Happy Felsch on a Ray Demmitt card...

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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

I owned 10 different Tangos at one time but now only Roger remains.

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Posted By: Seth B.

Any more out there? Leon, 36 Beschers, 21 Jennings in the SGC Registry, nowhere near as many of the others.

Here is my Bescher:




[Edited to add the SGC Registry numbers]

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Posted By: Bruce MacPherson

My only Egg card is the Tinker/Weaver.

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Posted By: Anthony N.

Here's a few more:





(edited to fix broken links)

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Posted By: Denny Walsh

Does Anyone know if the Egg Cards are made on the same stock as Mello Mint Cards? I'm begging you to tell me.....
the day is almost over and I havn't learned my one NEW thing TODAY yet....

Life's Grand,
Denny Walsh

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Posted By: BcD

same stock as E-106 with gloss*

write me!

BcD

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Posted By: Eric

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Posted By: fkw

They are related to and from the same era as E106 (American Caramel), D303-1 (General Baking), and D303-2 (Mothers).

D303-2 Mothers cards are the rarest.