Jim Thorpe

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Posted By: jay behrens

I used to know the anser to this question but need my memory refreshed, how many sports cards does Jim Thorpe appear on, not counting mordern issues? Off the top my head I think of the t200 Fatima Giants card adn the 1933 Sports Kings, but I am pretty sure there are a few others I am missing.

Jay

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Posted By: brian parker

I know of a couple other issues: the 1915 Sporting News (M101-5) set, which I believe has some related issues that used the same images, such as Standard Baking and Morehouse Baking. Jim Thorpe is also included in the 1922 Zeenut set.

Brian

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Posted By: David

I wouldn't be surprised if if he was in a few Olympic issues, probably mostly foreign. I don't know if this constitutes modern in your book, but there's the 1955 Topps All-American (football).

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Posted By: fkw

Jim Thorpe's nicest card in my opinion is the 1922 Zeenut card, and very scarce. Books for $5,000 NRMT. It has a whited-out background and nice clear B&W photo. Frank

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Posted By: Andy Baran

Thorpe is also in the 1913 Colgans Tin Top set, although I have never seen it, and in the Max Stein Postcard set.

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Posted By: Marc S.

Julie -- you are forgetting the plethora of wonderful Jim Thorpe game-used memorabilia now on the market. These are RARE! With only 25 of these extant, they are probably his rarest cards ever -- and thus worth gazillions:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1850688474

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Posted By: jay behrens

This is exactly the crap I hate. I do not understand why something as significant as a game worn piece of equipment is chopped up into meaningless little pieces.

As I've said before, it's equivelent to cutting up the Mona Lisa and and then selling the pieces. Sure, you own a piece of it, but without the greater context, the value and the beauty of the item are totally lost.

These card executives are no better than the scumbags that ran Enron, WolrdSom, etc into the ground

Jay