T207 Red Cross (known examples)

[ZachS]

Originally Posted by frohme

Everything I've read/heard (including your last quote) seems to imply 14 cards. If the Ward Miller find is accurate as quoted, it probably would have been known between the Lange find and the Louisiana find.

Which would make 14 cards of 13 players, with only the Blackburne as having more than one. Note that the two individual Blackburne images above are the before and after the "cleanup" referenced in certain threads to get a PSA 3... back damage and all.

Everything I've read/heard seems to imply 13 cards. I've repeatedly seen mention of 5 cards being known prior to the Louisiana Find of 8 cards:

4 in the first discovery from Louisiana (1983?)
1 a while later supposedly in NJ (Lange SGC 10 was sold by Mastro in 2007)
8 in the Louisiana Find of 2010 (these 8 are definitely known)

I agree that there are definitely TWO Blackburne cards (1 from the first discovery that is in a PSA 3 holder and 1 from the LA Find that is in an SGC 10 holder).

You make mention of the Ward Miller find being between the Lange and the LA Find but I've never heard of a card being found outside of the 3 "finds" that I mentioned. I have also been unable to find a picture of the Miller card anywhere but several people have mentioned Miller being found with a Red Cross back. I'm leaning toward the opinion that Miller may have been 1 in the group of 4 found in 1983 along with Leon's Weaver and the PSA 3 Blackburne that had glue removed from the back.

I found this quote from Jay Behrens in an article about the LA Find:

“I know that 12 of the 13 known t207 Red Cross cards have come from Louisiana,” said Behrens.

Doesn't he post here? Hopefully he can chime in and shed some light on this.