T226 Red Sun cards - 1908 or 1910?

[scooter729]

Not sure I have an answer but wanted to share a pic of my latest Red Sun - a smashed-to-heck Jeffries....

[RBrown]

Here's one of my favorites........

[miklia]

Originally Posted by RBrown

Here's one of my favorites........

man, somehow that card's condition absolutely fits the image. I love it.

Thanks for the help on the dates too! I might also contact PSA and see if they have any 'special' info to have suggested this date...

[miklia]

got a reply back from PSA. some interesting info.

"The information noting this set from 1908 came from the boxing catalog titled ‘Seconds Out – Round One’.





It looks like SGC and other industry sources get “1910” from the year that the T211 RED SUN baseball cards are believed to have been produced.



Should PSA decide to change the year for the T226 cards in the database, they will notify me and I will update the registry accordingly. I hope this information helps."

[RBrown]

Here's a SGC 1910. Looking at my PSA graded Red Sun cards they are all 1910 as they stated.

[HasselhoffsCheeseburger]

Seconds Out is a great resource but not infallible. They list the UTC issue as 1939 (PSA has the issue at 1935) when, in fact, it was released no earlier than 1941.

[DaveW]

Hmmm, I never noticed it before but the Owen Moran and Dick Nelson cards shown above also have the same image that was used to make their T218 cards. The Jeffries card is different. I'm not sure what that means, but it's interesting.