T207 Napoleon back confirmation thread.

[frohme]

If you scrounge Net54 via your favorite search tool, you'll see a few conversations about the T207 Napoleon back over the years - as far back as 2002. In at least one of those threads from 2007 a survey of the known T207 Napoleon backs had a brief run (3 months, 14 posts). It topped out in October, 2007 at 89 known cards.

With that survey as a starting point, we should be able to make a significant dent in confirming as many of the remaining 66 cards as possible. After all, it has been almost 10 years - enough time for 9 more Red Cross backs to show up! The list below was copied verbatim from the last post from the 2007 thread. It will be update as confirmations come in. Most T207 collectors believe we'll get to at least the basic set of 150, if not all 155, with variations.

If you have scans of, or previous auction/eBay/etc... listing of any of those cards with the Napoleon back, would love to hear of it - time to complete (confirm) this subset checklist. This would also be a great time to show off your Napoleon backs if you have them! That said ... let's go!

T207 Napoleon backs - working confirmation list of 155 Recruit-class card with their confirmation date. Each of the 89 cards from the previous list was given the date 10/16/2007. Unconfirmed list has become small enough to separate it and report only those unconfirmed - as before, pop-report-only confirmations are marked with an asterisk (*). Additionally, confirmations that do not include a scan/photo of the front/back are marked with a '!' and left as 'unconfirmed' until a visual a visual is found/provided. This effort added 10 cards to the 'unconfirmed' list ... we just need images for them.


As of May, 2025, the list stands with ~18 Napoleon backs still unconfirmed in this thread (but see post 35 re Erwin, and #38 re image req's):

Unconfirmed as of yet
Mitchell, W
Northen

Variations
Austin (w/insignia)
Fisher (blue)
Livingston 'C'
Livingston 'c'
Mullin 'D'

TPG-Only
* Erwin

Verbal Only
! Block
! Chalmers
! Golden
! Higgins
! Perdue
! Rucker
! Schulte
! Simon
! Stack
! Wheat

As of 5/2025 - Confirmed: 137

I will continue to keep this thread updated as new information becomes available, but may be a little slow to do so.

As always, post confirmations here (with images, please), via PM to me, or email me at mikefrohme@yahoo.com. Thank you all for all the contributions over the 8+ years of this thread's activity!

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Mike