ugliest and boring pre war issues

[zljones]

What do you think are some ugly pre WWII cards? I for one think just about every card made from 1916-1932 as ugly issues or boring, like those exhibits and strip cards. Goudey Wide pens are also ugly and boring.

[Leon]

Some of the cards in the 1916-1932 era are neat.....Beauty is in the eye of the beholder though. I will admit some of them are ugly too, such as a few of the 1920's W cards and a few of the R cards, though most of those are a few years later.....but again, some of that era are so butt ugly they are almost attractive because of it.

How can anyone who collects vintage not like this D381?

[dstraate]

Well, if we're talking ugly, Honus Wagner might not be the face to show if you're trying to convince someone otherwise.

Good thing he could crush a baseball, cause I don't think he was going to become a male model.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by dstraate

Well, if we're talking ugly, Honus Wagner might not be the face to show if you're trying to convince someone otherwise.

Good thing he could crush a baseball, cause I don't think he was going to become a male model.

he's not George Clooney but it's a neat baseball card.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Leon

he's not George Clooney but it's a neat baseball card.

Wagner, Collins, Jackson -- these guys were like Nixon in the 1960 debates.

[steve B]

It's hard to pick any prewar cards as boring. The big black and white cards, the goudey fine pens and that sort don't do much for me.

But I like stuff with fairly primitive art or printing as much as the really nice litho stuff, so lots of cards fit. I even like the MP Co cards.

Steve B

[zljones]

I am in love with lithograph beauties so much that I just can't find anything special about black and white cards accept for N172, N173, N175, N300 and E107 which I am in awe of. Leon you are right on, beauty is in the eye of beholder. Cards like E107 or N300 could be defined as bland but they are loaded with history and rarity it makes them beautiful to me. I just do not have any interest in 1916-1932 cards, so that makes them ugly and dull to me, but to someone else they are as good as gold. I am also exclusively into the main mass produced sets and there were none from 1916-1932.

[packs]

I've always disliked the 1888 SF Hess Newsboys cards. Someone just paid $488 for an SGC 20 on eBay. Sure, they're pretty neat looking cards but I can't imagine paying nearly $500 for a card of a guy who played on his company's baseball team.

[vintagecpa]

I personally never got anything out of strip cards. I guess they would get my vote.

[bcbgcbrcb]

I think that the exhibit cards are great.

I believe that T207's fall into that category, not very colorful, not great assortment of stars, etc.

Many of the strip card issues would also fall into that category but there are a couple of nice ones, W590 & W504 come to mind.

[Orions father]

My entire collection falls into that time frame. I agree strip cards are ugly but Exhibits are great. Ok maybe Mr Fewster is not the best example.