The Official T206 Jack Dunn Poll (All in Good Fun)

[White Borders]

[Matt]

I've always not understood the point of this discussion. All the cards were printed vertically, were they not? So we're discussing if the artwork used for the card was horizontal or vertical? What if it was at an angle to the way the card got printed?

[ChiefBenderForever]

Horizontal and the prelude to Superman !

[White Borders]

Hey Matt,

Don't be causing no trouble with stinkin di-ag-o-nals, you dig??? We hav's us 'nough problems with 90 degree perpendiculars!!!

[Howe’s Hunter]

all the horizontal cards have a horizon line. This one doesn't. It's a vertical.

[FrankWakefield]

The horizontal poses are in the 150 series... after that American Litho came to their senses and made the rest of the cards verticals, including Dunn. I think some of the folks that shout that Dunn's card is horizontal know better, they know it isn't. They just persist to stir up Ted, me, and a few others.

[teetwoohsix]

vertical,in my opinion...

[cfc1909]

I know you know there are 6 horizontal cards in the t206 set and Jack Dunn is NOT one of them. I am more interested in the back and I will bet that sometime in the future this card will be discovered with a Drum reverse...

At present there are 3 known Baltimore t206s with a Drum reverse and I own 2 of them and will not give up until I own all 3...

[Chris-Counts]

In my perfect world, all cards are horizontal.

[FrankWakefield]

Jack Dunn was born in 1872. That is before baseball gloves. By the time he's playing ball gloves are around, but are rare, and not used by hard core base ballists. Dunn made it to what we now consider the major leagues with Brooklyn in 1897.

I'm confident that it is a vertical image. I think some of the horizontal-heads see that and are just stirring, and some really don't see it. I can envision a ball player getting in that position for a ball he's going back for that was popped over his head at third or short, I can see a fellow getting into that position going for a fly near the edge of a railing beside the stands. This T210 of Chandler now on eBay OUT OUT OUT, be OUTED card!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...STRK:MEBIDX:IT ends in a few hours, and I think that its high price is due to the similarity of the Dunn image. AND, I think that ball players who learned to play without a glove, as Dunn would have, were likely to have caught balls like that more often than some 21st century product from the sunshine of California or Florida.

As I out Chandler, he's at $50.99. I think he'll sell for much more than that. I don't know if a vertical-head is going to bid it up, to further the cause of Dunn being a vertical card; or if it will be bid up by a horizontal-head who plans on burning the card so no one will see how similar Dunn is...

[White Borders]

Originally Posted by cfc1909

I will bet that sometime in the future this card will be discovered with a Drum reverse...

Hiya Jim,

Kewl that you picked up on what I was alluding to with that poll response ... Jack Dunn is a 350 Series card, which means that a Drum back is certainly possible, but, at least to my knowledge, no Jack Dunn with a Drum reverse has ever been found

Best Regards,
Craig

[Doug]

I'm guessing it's a vertical pose. IMO it looks like he's backing up to catch a fly ball.

[Jason Carota]

Originally Posted by Doug

I'm guessing it's a vertical pose. IMO it looks like he's backing up to catch a fly ball.

That is my take on it, as well. Pop fly over the mound. Definitely a vertical pose.