1926 Exhibits Ruth Question

[smtjoy]

I have wondered about them for a while. One thing I though was interesting, is Jeff has the most 1926 exhibits of anybody I know and when I went over his list we are both missing the exact same ones, I just need more. Most of them I have never seen so there is a good possibilty that they are the same as the 1925. It would be nice to put together a list of which we have for sure confirmed as 1926 without the box to compare with the numbers Adam listed.

[Exhibitman]

This stuff is giving me a headache...

[smtjoy]

I just checked out the list I had of what he needed and he needs 71 1926 cards to complete, looking at your post that 70 cards were reruns, makes me think they are the reruns. I wonder how many of these needs also were issued in 1925? I know hes been looking for a long while, maybe he can comment if he has ever seen any of them and just been outbid.


1926 Exhibits (71/128)
Adams Bassler Bell
Bigbee Bishop Blates
Bleuge Bottomley Bressler
Carey Cobb E. Collins
Coveleski Critz Cuyler
Donohue Dauss Dressen
Dykes Falk Flagstead
Freigau Gehrig Gerber
Goslin Grantham Grimm
S. Harris Hartnett Heilmann
Hornsby Jacobson W. Johnson
Judge Kamm Kramer
Lutzke McManus McNeely
Miller Mueller Muesel
Myatt O'Rourke Perkins
Rixey Rommel Roush
Ruel Ruffing Ruth
J. Sewell Shalk Shawkey
Shelly Sherdell Shocker
Sissler E. Smith S. Smith
Speaker Summa Terry
Thurston Todt Torporcer
Traynor K. Williams Wingard
Wingo Wright

[glchen]

My opinion is that this lot from a Legendary auction are all 1926 Exhibits because they seem to have the same toning and most likely the same provenance. Link

In this lot, these cards have the box:

Sparky Adams
Max Bishop
Raymond Blates
Oswald Bluege
Max Carey
Hugh Critz
Charles Dressen
Wilson Fewster
Howard Freigau
George Grantham
Harry Heilmann
William Jacobson
Walter Johnson
Willie Kamm
Walter Lutzke
Clarence Mueller
Earl McNeely
Edwin Rommell
Ed Roush
Charles Ruffing
Ray Shalk
William Sherdell
Harold Traynor
Ernest Wingard

This seems to agree with Scott's list of what he is also missing in the 26 Exhibits set. If anyone has any of these cards without the box, if they could post this, that would be great.

I would think the toning in the 26 Exhibits would be slightly bluer while the 25 Exhibits would be grayer.

[smtjoy]

I just went thru the list and every card he as well as every card I need was a 1925 issue.

A while back I got a lot that was close to the legendary one and it was mainly 1926 but had a few of what I though were 1925's, the colors were all the same on all of them, I just checked my list of them and they are the ones no one has every seen a 1926 of.

Looking through my notes I show one set selling in 2007 in a oldjudge auction and I just looked at the pics and they show the 1926 with box and the do appear to have a different tint than the 1925 set that was sold in the same auction. Link-

http://www.oldjudge.com/archive/200711/exhibits/

I am going to check the tints on the 1925s I have that are the in missing 1926 to see if any are a different tint.

Interesting stuff.

Ok just adding pics from the auction on top of each other, they clearly look to have a different tint-

[smtjoy]

Ok just went thru my 1925 and 1926 cards, first its really hard to tell the difference just by looking at them but as soon as I scanned a few side by side it became a lot easier, here you go, what do you all think-

First here is a 1926 from the lot I got (that had like 11 1926 and 3 1925's) and a 1925 just so we can compare cards that we know are 1926 and 1925's -



Second here is a pick of a 1925 in the lot I mentioned above as well as another 1925 I picked up a few years ago-



Here is a 1925 that clearly has a blue tint, here is a 1925 only player Brooks-



I only found a few that for sure had a blue tint, my ruth did not, I would guess maybe 25% or less had the blue tint.

[glchen]

Thanks for all of the scans, Scott. I think I'm going to go forward and assume that blue tint is 26 Exhibits and gray tint is 25 Exhibits even though it may be very difficult to tell on some cards. The box/no box may not matter if there doesn't exist a no box variation for it.