T215 Red Cross actually a T206?

[E93]

Barry,
Regarding T207 Red Cross, though I am no expert on the set my guess as to why their inclusion has not been questioned is that there are no other sets that use T207 fronts, and the Red Cross backs are just like other T207s with bios and stats, right?
JimB

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by E93

Barry,
Regarding T207 Red Cross, though I am no expert on the set my guess as to why their inclusion has not been questioned is that there are no other sets that use T207 fronts, and the Red Cross backs are just like other T207s with bios and stats, right?
JimB

Hi Jim- I agree that makes perfect sense for the T207 series, but since T-215 shares many of the same fronts as T206, why did Burdick not include this as part of T206? Is it because some are found with brown captions, and some with blue ones? And I wonder given the extreme rarity of T207 Red Cross, did Burdick even know of their existence? It's possible he never even saw one.

[Abravefan11]

Barry - My guess would be that if Burdick was aware of the T207 Red Cross back, that there wasn't anything about those cards that led him to believe they were a separate issue. Possibly he just saw the Red Cross as one of several brands used in the same issue like many other sets of the time.

With T215-1 and T213-1, as many others have said before me, there were differences that may have led to him classifying them the way he did. With both sets it could have been due to there also being other types. The T213-1's could have been the paper stock and the T215-1's could have been the caption changes. We'll never know for sure what he was thinking.