S74 Silks: Up, Down, or Who Cares?

[Ease]

I asked Archive, and he says actress backs are a speckled cardboard, while ballplayer backs are smooth.

[BobC]

Its even easier to tell the difference than that. For some reason the word "baseball" is spelled as one word on all the advertising backs for the ball players while on the actress silks it is spelled "base ball", as two words. No idea why, just noticed it one time and realized it was kind of odd seeing as how these silks were all going into the same cigarette packages back in the day.

BobC

[andybecker]

Originally Posted by Ease

I asked Archive, and he says actress backs are a speckled cardboard, while ballplayer backs are smooth.

this is true.

Hi Leon, Ron, and Bob.....it's like a silk reunion

i hope you all have been well. good luck adding to your silk collections.

dibs.....lol.....

[andybecker]

has anyone found an "unfolded" red sun maroon front silk?

in my experience, all blue front red suns are unfolded while all maroon front red suns are folded.

also, regarding grading....i believe both s74-1 and s74-2 were folded when inserted into packs of tobacco....with the exception of blue front red suns which i do not believe ever made their way into packs (thus why they are found unfolded).

the sgc 84 red sun cobb that Leon mentions is a blue front, again unfolded.

is that still the highest graded s74-1?

[andybecker]

speaking of silk reunion, where's Jim? he was the master of silks. great guy.

[Touch'EmAll]

I saw this thread a while back, finally made it to safe deposit box today. Check these two out - does anyone know any higher graded Matty and Walter Johnson?