T206 - Doyle N.Y. Nat'l - info??

[tedzan]

Regarding the Joe Doyle error card......this card was unknown (and known) in the hobby until circa 1987 when Bill Huggins found
one in a collection that he had acquired. When Bill revealed his Doyle, Larry Fritsch then revealed a Doyle error card that he had.
To date, only 8 legitimate examples of this card have been confirmed. There have been several fakes in circulation; and, at least
one of which has been graded.

What I find most interesting about this scarce T206 error card, is that its existence was known prior to Fritsch's and Huggins' dis-
coveries of this card in the 1980's. On display at the Univ. of Georgia is Senator Richard Russell's boyhood (circa 1910) Tobacco
card collection. Included in this 1000+ card collection is the Joe Doyle error card. Although, this display has been there for many
years, very few have seen it.

American Lithographic printed the 150 and 350 Series T206's first starting with the PIEDMONT brand. And, since the Magie and the
Joe Doyle errors were caught quickly, these two cards exist ONLY with the PIEDMONT 150 and PIEDMONT 350 backs, respectively.



Here is my "no-name" printing error card of Ray Ryan. Apparently, the Brown ink pass was missed on this one (hence, no caption).
There is a good likelihood that the 47 other OLD MILL Southern Leaguer's in this print run are also without their captions (and any
brown coloring).



TED Z