A case for the timeline of the T213-1 (COUPON) set

[FrankWakefield]

The event of Demmitt moving to Montreal doesn't preclude printing of cards with a St. Louis caption.


I think one significant aspect of the matter is the Demmitt Coupon card up there. When we look at T206 cards, we're usually looking at cards where the team in the caption matches with the team in the image. That isn't absolutely true, but generally. Sometimes they just removed and then added uniform lettering, but they tried to get it right. The two T206 Demmitt's show that, same image but the lettering on the jersey has changed to be consistent with the caption. That doesn't happen with T213's. When I was younger, nay when we all were younger (and some of you weren't even contemplated) Anheuser-Busch made Budweiser, but they also made Bush Baverian Beer, which was less expensive... they quit brewing it in 1979. I think Coupon was a second class brand. They didn't get first run cards. By the time they were getting cards some of the players had been traded, and this was reflected in the caption, if at all. Coupon cards retained the old images... Again, look at Demmitt with the last image used in T206, the St. Louis image, but with a Chicago Amer. caption.

I am somewhat in agreement with the time line. But the trade before is more significant than the trade after.


Another thought. The captions on T206's and on T213-1's are on there by way of lithography. Those blue captions on the later Coupon cards have always looked odd to me, they lack the sharpness of the previous captions. I wonder if those blue captions were done with offset printing. I envision someone filing on the stones to remove the captions, then the sheets are cranked out with lithography, then captions are added offset. I've not looked, but my belief is that T206 captions are consistently the same distance from the image frameline. I suspect that those blue T213 captions drift up and down slightly, if we were to look for it. If it does drift, that would be evident of that additional print run for captions. That all makes more sense to me that a reworking of the entire blue stones and plates just to fix a caption. And why blue? Because it was done separately.