"True" T206 rookies backs?

[brianp-beme]

Nice list of collectible Wheat items Derek. A few remarks...

The T206 Wheat card was part of what has been identified as the 460 Only Series print group, which includes cards with backs that have "350-460 Subjects", but no "350 Subjects" backs. The printing timeline for this group of 48 cards is supposedly 1911.

Being that this is the case, I have my doubts that the Wheat design was first utilized in the 1910 T213-1 Coupon or the 1910-12 T215 Red Cross (brown caption) sets. Logically thinking, the ATC commissioned the designs for its T206 issue, and then utilized these designs for other sets. The inclusion in the Red Cross (brown caption) set makes sense, because of the identified issue dates (1910-1912) allow for it to be a card that was printed possibly in either 1911 or 1912.

However the inclusion of Wheat in T213-1 Coupon set calls into question its strictly 1910 dating, since his card's design was first introduced in the "460 Only" T206 print group in 1911.

My thought is that the T213-1 Coupon set was either printed over a span of two years (1910 and 1911), or perhaps just 1911.

Maybe some research about the design composition of the T213-1 set (what print groups the designs come from) has been conducted in the past, but I still just might look into it to see if the T213-1 set was indeed a multi-year production)

EDIT: Just checked the T213-1 Coupon checklist, and Wheat is not included in this set. His T213-1 Coupon entry in the earliest HOF item list should be stricken, and perhaps threshed as well, so as to separate the Wheat from the chaff. There goes my fun research project, as I will assume that earlier hobbyist correctly pegged the T213-1 Coupon set as being issued in 1910.


Brian