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[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I wonder if anybody has followed the frequency of the beautiful Turkey Red ad back for certain players as opposed to the more common checklist back. In my experience I have seen the ad consistently with Keeler and Walsh but not, for example, Cobb. Anybody see a similar pattern with other players?

John - only the second series of cards (#'s 76 - 126) come with the ad backs.

[gnaz01]

Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities

John - only the second series of cards (#'s 76 - 126) come with the ad backs.

And there's the answer, thanks Kevin, as always!! Hope all is well with you!

[T3s]

Hi all,

Kevin hit the nail on the head. No ad-backs in the first series.

Ted added a twist with the Dool"an" ad-back. For quite some time, only the Dool"in" variation was known with the ad-back (Dool"an" had a checklist back). I found one several years ago (and have since found others) and it seems Ted found one too. I was also lucky enough to find a Tenney-NY with an ad-back a few years ago. This variation was also thought to only carry the checklist back (Tenney-NY & Bos had the ad-back). Notes on these are on my T3 website.

One last twist. If you'll check the pop reports, you'll also notice several 2nd series cards where the ad-back is a true rarity - believe me, I've searched for years and most of them on the list are in my collection. They are Bell, Bender, Burns, Browne, Lennox, Sullivan and a few others. A Rhoades ad-back has yet to be found.

Happy Collecting,
Craig

[trdcrdkid]

Here's an article that Buck Barker wrote for Card Collectors' Bulletin 50 years ago about ad backs vs. checklist backs in T3s. Too bad we don't have a time machine to show him this thread!