1913 Cravats - The Full Set

[Bugsy]

I wanted to publicly thank Taylor (tschock) for being willing to part with his Cravats piece. It was received about a week ago and the set is now complete...at least until any further uncataloged examples surface

This was a project 20+ years in the making and I still cannot believe it is done.
These things are extremely obscure. There aren't more than a handful of each player and several players only have one known example, including the Joe Jackson. If these were cards instead of ugly pennants, a set would almost certainly be impossible. So to all of you collectors of obscure oddball sets...keep at it

Chris

[Bugsy]

Here is the rest of the set, although they look my prettier on Old Cardboard's site: http://www.oldcardboard.com/o/b/cravats/cravats-gal.asp

[h2oya311]

awesome!!! Congrats on finishing the set! Now what?

[SMPEP]

Congrats! That's quite a piece you got from Taylor! Think I like the sewn version better than the individual pennants. Very cool. Although I kind of wished you hadn't shown this ... because now I have the thought ... hey, it would be neat to collect those ... maybe I should start the set!

Cheers,
Patrick

[tiger8mush]

Very nice, congrats Chris!

BTW, looks like a handful of the pennants share photos used in the sepia-toned M101-2 set.

Chase (1909) -
Konetchy (1910) -
Dooin (1910) -
Coombs (1910) -
Bender (1910) -
Archer (1911) -
Meyers (1911) -
Wagner (1912) -

and Plank (if it were reversed) is close but not quite:

[RedsFan1941]

outstanding! what a great set!

[Bugsy]

Thanks for all the kind comments! The Cravats probably are my all-time favorite set; almost certainly because they are so unusual and obscure. I am also hoping information on their origin will someday surface. All we really know at this point is the year.