Back Runs....

[calvindog]

[Jay Wolt]

Jeffrey simply incredible!

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Jeffrey simply incredible!

+1 amazing.


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[ValKehl]

Jay & Jeffrey, I'm lovin' your Wags & Cobb back runs because I'm partial to real-photo cards, especially cards with scarce/rare ad backs.

[brianp-beme]

After those incredibly impressive Cobb runs and the Wagner run, I felt compelled to dig out and show off another couple show-stopping back runs.

The three different backs of National Caramel Charlie Hollacher:

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And the tan and green backs of 1936 S & S Game cards of Kiki Cuyler:

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Brian (these are complete runs, so you can't top them even if you try)

[oldjudge]

That is the best Hollocher run I have ever seen!

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

That is the best Hollocher run I have ever seen!

Jay, your Wagner run is almost as sweet!

Brian

[ValKehl]

Brian, your complete back run of S&S Cuyler cards is beyond outstanding!

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Brian, your complete back run of S&S Cuyler cards is beyond outstanding!

Val, you are too kind. But I have to admit that, technically, it is not a Cuyler run at all, as the tan back variety spells his name 'Cyler'.

Brian

[Harford20]

N.ate, wow!! As a back collector/ variations guy, that display is impressive.

Dave

[Marslife]

Finally completed my Gibson Run with the Brown Hindu, took a while to find but finally got one!

1. Piedmont 150 Factory 25
2. Piedmont 350 Factory 25
3. Sweet Caporal 150 Factory 25
4. Sweet Caporal 150 Factory 30
5. Sweet Caporal 350 Factory 25
6. Sweet Caporal 350 Factory 30
7. EPDG
8. Hindu
9. Old Mill
10. Sovereign 150 Factory 25

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[cdn_collector]

Originally Posted by Marslife

Finally completed my Gibson Run with the Brown Hindu, took a while to find but finally got one!

Putting aside my obvious bias, that is a fantastic looking Gibson run.

Congrats, Cliff!

Richard.

[MuncieNolePAZ]

Originally Posted by Marslife

Finally completed my Gibson Run with the Brown Hindu, took a while to find but finally got one!

1. Piedmont 150 Factory 25
2. Piedmont 350 Factory 25
3. Sweet Caporal 150 Factory 25
4. Sweet Caporal 150 Factory 30
5. Sweet Caporal 350 Factory 25
6. Sweet Caporal 350 Factory 30
7. EPDG
8. Hindu
9. Old Mill
10. Sovereign 150 Factory 25

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Congrats Cliff! Great looking run.

Chad

[Blunder19]

Very impressive collection guys.. I enjoyed seeing all these backruns...

I love collecting different back runs... here are some of mine:

2 Seymour throwing back runs


SEYMOUR PORTRAIT


SEYMOUR BATTING


KLEINOW CATCHING BOSTON


RHODES PORTRAIT


LEIFIELD BATTING


CHASE WITH TROPHY


CHASE THROWING DARK HAT (check out the double overprint T213 Type 3)



RED COBB (2nd attempt)

[BobbyStrawberry]

Complete Old Judge N172 back run

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Texxxx

Probably never own the UZIT or a T215 Pirate.

Perhaps, but you have the Red Cross, and that is a huge card.

[ValKehl]

There I was at the Net54 pre-War collectors get together in No. Va. at the beginning of February, wearing my Hugh Jennings back-run T-shirt that Steve ("brass_rat") & Bryan ("Jobu") gifted me about 4 years ago, and in the process of setting up my card display at the beginning of this wonderful event (thanks to Ryan & Andrew!). Whereupon, Steve comes up to me, hands me a wrapped package, and says, "open it, it's for you." I do as instructed and see that it is another Jennings back-run T-shirt. Steve asks, "what's different about it?" Without thinking, I instantly respond, "the size?" "No" says Steve, "look more closely." I do this , and OHMIGOSH, I see that the back run on this T-shirt has an additional card! At this point, Steve pulls this additional card out of his pocket, hands it to me, and says, "it's for you." The card is a T216 Kotton Cigs with the "NEVER GO OUT" back that I had been searching for forever but never seen and all but given up hope of ever finding. Steve told me he came across this card in a collection he was considering acquiring and instatntly knew he had to get it for me. Bryan then updated his design work for the T-shirt, and Steve got the new T-shirt made. Yes, I'm prejudiced, but you won't find two nicer guys in our hobby and/or on this forum!

A pic of my previous Jennings back run appears in post #30 of this thread. Below are pics of both back-run T-shirts, my new back run, and the T216 addition to it:

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

There I was at the Net54 pre-War collectors get together in No. Va. at the beginning of February, wearing my Hugh Jennings back-run T-shirt that Steve ("brass_rat") & Bryan ("Jobu") gifted me about 4 years ago, and in the process of setting up my card display at the beginning of this wonderful event (thanks to Ryan & Andrew!). Whereupon, Steve comes up to me, hands me a wrapped package, and says, "open it, it's for you." I do as instructed and see that it is another Jennings back-run T-shirt. Steve asks, "what's different about it?" Without thinking, I instantly respond, "the size?" "No" says Steve, "look more closely." I do this , and OHMIGOSH, I see that the back run on this T-shirt has an additional card! At this point, Steve pulls this additional card out of his pocket, hands it to me, and says, "it's for you." The card is a T216 Kotton Cigs with the "NEVER GO OUT" back that I had been searching for forever but never seen and all but given up hope of ever finding. Steve told me he came across this card in a collection he was considering acquiring and instatntly knew he had to get it for me. Bryan then updated his design work for the T-shirt, and Steve got the new T-shirt made. Yes, I'm prejudiced, but you won't find two nicer guys in our hobby and/or on this forum!

A pic of my previous Jennings back run appears in post #30 of this thread. Below are pics of both back-run T-shirts, my new back run, and the T216 addition to it:

This is so great. It has to be one of the top ten posts ever. Congratulations, Val, and well done, Steve and Bryan!

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

There I was at the Net54 pre-War collectors get together in No. Va. at the beginning of February, wearing my Hugh Jennings back-run T-shirt that Steve ("brass_rat") & Bryan ("Jobu") gifted me about 4 years ago, and in the process of setting up my card display at the beginning of this wonderful event (thanks to Ryan & Andrew!). Whereupon, Steve comes up to me, hands me a wrapped package, and says, "open it, it's for you." I do as instructed and see that it is another Jennings back-run T-shirt. Steve asks, "what's different about it?" Without thinking, I instantly respond, "the size?" "No" says Steve, "look more closely." I do this , and OHMIGOSH, I see that the back run on this T-shirt has an additional card! At this point, Steve pulls this additional card out of his pocket, hands it to me, and says, "it's for you." The card is a T216 Kotton Cigs with the "NEVER GO OUT" back that I had been searching for forever but never seen and all but given up hope of ever finding. Steve told me he came across this card in a collection he was considering acquiring and instatntly knew he had to get it for me. Bryan then updated his design work for the T-shirt, and Steve got the new T-shirt made. Yes, I'm prejudiced, but you won't find two nicer guys in our hobby and/or on this forum!

A pic of my previous Jennings back run appears in post #30 of this thread. Below are pics of both back-run T-shirts, my new back run, and the T216 addition to it:

Awesome!!!!! Congrats!!!! I made a tshirt for my miller run too...just recently...but I like yours better!!!!

[stutor]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

There I was at the Net54 pre-War collectors get together in No. Va. at the beginning of February, wearing my Hugh Jennings back-run T-shirt that Steve ("brass_rat") & Bryan ("Jobu") gifted me about 4 years ago, and in the process of setting up my card display at the beginning of this wonderful event (thanks to Ryan & Andrew!). Whereupon, Steve comes up to me, hands me a wrapped package, and says, "open it, it's for you." I do as instructed and see that it is another Jennings back-run T-shirt. Steve asks, "what's different about it?" Without thinking, I instantly respond, "the size?" "No" says Steve, "look more closely." I do this , and OHMIGOSH, I see that the back run on this T-shirt has an additional card! At this point, Steve pulls this additional card out of his pocket, hands it to me, and says, "it's for you." The card is a T216 Kotton Cigs with the "NEVER GO OUT" back that I had been searching for forever but never seen and all but given up hope of ever finding. Steve told me he came across this card in a collection he was considering acquiring and instatntly knew he had to get it for me. Bryan then updated his design work for the T-shirt, and Steve got the new T-shirt made. Yes, I'm prejudiced, but you won't find two nicer guys in our hobby and/or on this forum!

A pic of my previous Jennings back run appears in post #30 of this thread. Below are pics of both back-run T-shirts, my new back run, and the T216 addition to it:

This is the best thing I have read in a quite a while. Kudos to Val, Steve and Bryan. I love this.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

There I was at the Net54 pre-War collectors get together in No. Va. at the beginning of February, wearing my Hugh Jennings back-run T-shirt that Steve ("brass_rat") & Bryan ("Jobu") gifted me about 4 years ago, and in the process of setting up my card display at the beginning of this wonderful event (thanks to Ryan & Andrew!). Whereupon, Steve comes up to me, hands me a wrapped package, and says, "open it, it's for you." I do as instructed and see that it is another Jennings back-run T-shirt. Steve asks, "what's different about it?" Without thinking, I instantly respond, "the size?" "No" says Steve, "look more closely." I do this , and OHMIGOSH, I see that the back run on this T-shirt has an additional card! At this point, Steve pulls this additional card out of his pocket, hands it to me, and says, "it's for you." The card is a T216 Kotton Cigs with the "NEVER GO OUT" back that I had been searching for forever but never seen and all but given up hope of ever finding. Steve told me he came across this card in a collection he was considering acquiring and instatntly knew he had to get it for me. Bryan then updated his design work for the T-shirt, and Steve got the new T-shirt made. Yes, I'm prejudiced, but you won't find two nicer guys in our hobby and/or on this forum!

A pic of my previous Jennings back run appears in post #30 of this thread. Below are pics of both back-run T-shirts, my new back run, and the T216 addition to it:

Wow, that's amazing. I can certainly agree that Steve and Bryan are as good as it gets in the hobby. What a great story.

[MuncieNolePAZ]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

There I was at the Net54 pre-War collectors get together in No. Va. at the beginning of February, wearing my Hugh Jennings back-run T-shirt that Steve ("brass_rat") & Bryan ("Jobu") gifted me about 4 years ago, and in the process of setting up my card display at the beginning of this wonderful event (thanks to Ryan & Andrew!). Whereupon, Steve comes up to me, hands me a wrapped package, and says, "open it, it's for you." I do as instructed and see that it is another Jennings back-run T-shirt. Steve asks, "what's different about it?" Without thinking, I instantly respond, "the size?" "No" says Steve, "look more closely." I do this , and OHMIGOSH, I see that the back run on this T-shirt has an additional card! At this point, Steve pulls this additional card out of his pocket, hands it to me, and says, "it's for you." The card is a T216 Kotton Cigs with the "NEVER GO OUT" back that I had been searching for forever but never seen and all but given up hope of ever finding. Steve told me he came across this card in a collection he was considering acquiring and instatntly knew he had to get it for me. Bryan then updated his design work for the T-shirt, and Steve got the new T-shirt made. Yes, I'm prejudiced, but you won't find two nicer guys in our hobby and/or on this forum!

A pic of my previous Jennings back run appears in post #30 of this thread. Below are pics of both back-run T-shirts, my new back run, and the T216 addition to it:

That is incredible Val. Congrats! Well done Steve and Bryan. That is really awesome.

Chad

[Casey2296]

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Awesome story and a great group of guys.
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[MVSNYC]

What an awesome thing! So great to read a story like that.

[Zach Wheat]

These runs are kind of neat to see side by side. I've never collected cards in this fashion but it is tempting.....

[Luke]

That is one of the coolest hobby stories ever!

[Kutcher55]

Wow, just wow on some of these back runs (Blunder 19 are you kidding me? So impressive!).

I have been working on a T206 Red Sox team set with all different backs. Right now I have 7 of the cards. I have polar bear, sovereign, cycle, old mill, AB, tolstoi, and EPDG. I have found there seems to be a cutoff between AB and the next level up, which I would consider to be Hindu. Was fairly reasonable to find the ones I have but Hindu is a whole nother ball game and I still don't have anything tougher than that. I suppose Carolina Brights would be next. Still need Speaker (will probably just do Piedmont or SC), Cicotte, Stahl no glove, Kleinow and Spencer. This has been a fun project and these are the only cards in my collection where displaying the backs is as much fun visually as displaying the front.

[tireolddawg]

Originally Posted by Blunder19

CHASE WITH TROPHY


CHASE THROWING DARK HAT (check out the double overprint T213 Type 3)

I noticed you have two T213-2s for each chase run. Are these different? Or do you just have two copies?

Edit: I’ll keep my post in case anyone else was as curious and unobservant as me, but I now realize they are team variations.

[brass_rat]

Val, I'm just so happy that the card eventually turned up somewhere, and you were able to complete the run. (Now if anybody comes up with a blank back or a red Croft's, consider me shocked!)

The hardest part was waiting several months to surprise you in person.

[Rich Falvo]

I don't have all the cards in a montage, but I think I finally managed to complete a player back run in my T206 Providence set with this Arndt Broad Leaf. I think it's complete with Piedmont, SC350/25, SC350/30, Sovereign, AB350, Cycle, BL.


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[ValKehl]

Many thanks to Daryl, Pete, Sonny, Jeffrey, Chad, Phil, Michael and Luke for the very kind words. Seeing back runs from other Net54 members over the years is what inspired me to do my Jennings run.

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by brass_rat

Val, I'm just so happy that the card eventually turned up somewhere, and you were able to complete the run. (Now if anybody comes up with a blank back or a red Croft's, consider me shocked!)

The hardest part was waiting several months to surprise you in person.

Steve, It's been a month, and I'm still in awe over your and Bryan's awesome kindnesses!

I'm a "never say never" guy, so I'm hoping that someone, perhaps a dedicated Croft's card collector, will come up with a Croft's Jennings with a red back for me (DJ, are you paying attention? ).

[B O'Brien]

How about a super “non colorful” back run.

The very elusive T206 Brown Back stack back run! It’s not pretty, but it’s cool!

Brown Hindu
Brown Old Mill SL
Brown Lenox
Broad Leaf 460
Broad Leaf 350

Enjoy,
Bob

[CRT Sportscards]

These back runs are great to see!

[Marslife]

Originally Posted by B O'Brien

How about a super “non colorful” back run.

The very elusive T206 Brown Back stack back run! It’s not pretty, but it’s cool!

Brown Hindu
Brown Old Mill SL
Brown Lenox
Broad Leaf 460
Broad Leaf 350

Enjoy,
Bob

Hey Bob! who are the players? thanks! Cliff

[B O'Brien]

Hey Mars,
Fronts here.
Bob

[ValKehl]

I just picked up this E104-1 Nadja Caramel card in a trade with Leon that has the same image of Topsy Hartsel as these 3 other type cards that I've had for quite some time. Are there any other cards, other than an E104-1 with a blank back, that I need to obtain in order to complete this small back run of Topsy?

[MVSNYC]

Originally Posted by B O'Brien

Hey Mars,
Fronts here.
Bob

Bob, your Matty Hindu has quite a chain of ownership...

Sonny T, Me, Ryan H...now you. Enjoy it.

[Casey2296]

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Fantastic Val, talk about a rare candy card back run.
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[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

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Fantastic Val, talk about a rare candy card back run.
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+1 Incredible.

[jackstockton652]

I've never collected cards in this fashion but it is tempting,the back runs are great.

[MVSNYC]

A big thank you to Sonny T. for this huge card for the Hofman run that my son and I are working on...

[ValKehl]

Phil and Daryl, thanks for your kind comments.

[B O'Brien]

I finally finished off the T206 backs line with a different HOFer in each slot. I needed two Southern League players to fill those two slots, so decided on Shag and Hooker, for obvious reasons! I needed one more player to be able to check off each slot and was lucky enough to be able to add Fred Merkle to fill the Lenox Brown slot. I was hoping it would either be him or Chase, so feel really good about hitting one of my two targets! Average grade is 3.25, with only the Willis Drum being a beater, but I’m looking to upgrade that if anyone will part with a 3-4!

Building the line and only including one each of the HOFers, made it extremely difficult, as I owned 3 different Tinker On and 4 different J Collins cards, along with a few other fronts, until the alignment finally came together. This is my second time doing this, so I knew was I was in for. I didn’t finish last time, so between the four years of working on it this time and nearly ten, the first time, there have been a ton of man hours on the excel sheet and on the BST to get this finished.

I think about half the board has helped in one of the two versions, so I won’t thank everyone here. I do wish Ted could have seen the finished lineup, as he helped me with some of the configurations, when I was working the first time, as I had to work with what I had, versus being able to just go out and buy whatever I needed, much like this time around. Looking forward to getting a good scanned layout of these, after I get fully moved and the scanner set up. I’m hoping to do the layout like Luke, Jamie and some of you other folks have.

For good measure I have the T215 Red Cross McGraw Glove, from Leon’s old collection. The T213-1 is included in this set with the Huggins Port, which I also hope to upgrade.

Picture has the player list with back and the back list, with player to make things a little easier to understand.

The joys of OCD collecting, right here!

Enjoy,
Bob

[DeanH3]

Congrats Bob! That's a fantastic accomplishment. I look forward to seeing them all together.

[Leon]

Congrats Bob. Job well done. Yes, Ted would have loved seeing you finish your run. He was really a great guy and sure loved the T206s.
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[B O'Brien]

I appreciate it, and very happy that there are so many cards from board members in this group and the full HOFer set!

Pics soon!
Bob

[Jobu]

Congrats Bob!!! I have considered trying to do that too but I have managed to keep myself from starting.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by B O'Brien

I finally finished off the T206 backs line with a different HOFer in each slot. I needed two Southern League players to fill those two slots, so decided on Shag and Hooker, for obvious reasons! I needed one more player to be able to check off each slot and was lucky enough to be able to add Fred Merkle to fill the Lenox Brown slot. I was hoping it would either be him or Chase, so feel really good about hitting one of my two targets! Average grade is 3.25, with only the Willis Drum being a beater, but I’m looking to upgrade that if anyone will part with a 3-4!

Building the line and only including one each of the HOFers, made it extremely difficult, as I owned 3 different Tinker On and 4 different J Collins cards, along with a few other fronts, until the alignment finally came together. This is my second time doing this, so I knew was I was in for. I didn’t finish last time, so between the four years of working on it this time and nearly ten, the first time, there have been a ton of man hours on the excel sheet and on the BST to get this finished.

I think about half the board has helped in one of the two versions, so I won’t thank everyone here. I do wish Ted could have seen the finished lineup, as he helped me with some of the configurations, when I was working the first time, as I had to work with what I had, versus being able to just go out and buy whatever I needed, much like this time around. Looking forward to getting a good scanned layout of these, after I get fully moved and the scanner set up. I’m hoping to do the layout like Luke, Jamie and some of you other folks have.

For good measure I have the T215 Red Cross McGraw Glove, from Leon’s old collection. The T213-1 is included in this set with the Huggins Port, which I also hope to upgrade.

Picture has the player list with back and the back list, with player to make things a little easier to understand.

The joys of OCD collecting, right here!

Enjoy,
Bob

Hi Bob, so you're the one who got that Merkle Brown Lenox. I wondered where it went. That's an incredible run. Are you going for the other cousins to the T206 set, or just the Coupon Type-1 and Red Cross Type-1 (because they could be T206)?

[B O'Brien]

Hey Sean,
Thanks for the kind words and, yes, I’m super happy to have landed that Merkle! I missed out on the Uzit Merkle from the original run, but super happy to have landed the Brown Lenox instead.

I’ve been trying for the rest of the cousins, but think I came in third on the Pirate Marquard and well short on the Victory Evers recently. I have landed a T213-3 Chase and T213-3 Factory 8 OP Collins, and continue to look for a nice T213-2 HOF portrait to check off that slot.

I burned up a LOT of trading stock to get the BL460 Brown, as the rest of the line was sort of built around get him in that slot, but would love to see if I could track down the Pirate and Victory at least!

Thank again,
Bob