e107 vs t206

[e107collector]

Scott,

On your Type 2 Delehanty, I'm pretty sure it has the "overprint" back, correct? Is the back blank, or does it also have the 1 of 150 text as well, along with the overprint?

It seems like some of your Type 2's can be classified as a type 3.

Tony

[shammus]

Well, truth be told, I think a case could already be made for a "Type 3". Has nothing to do with the overprints really, but I firmly believe that certain Type 2s are made of a completely different material. Many are the thicker, greyish toned cardboard stock that we're used to seeing. Gives me the impression they were cut off a box lid or something like that. But I had a Delehanty and one other Type 2 which was white and smooth as a cueball on the back and was a thinner stock, as though it came off of an advertising poster of some sort where maybe a nicer paper/cardboard material was used.

[sb1]

The Delehanty does have the overprint and is on the heavy gray stock. I think the gray stocked ones probably came off some type of packaging that the product came in. If Brian has thin ones with the Type 2 fonts they may be ad pieces. Further I think there were different issuers/users of the cards. Some of the blank backs have different text layouts at the bottom, versus series of 150 backs and may have actually been printed in 1903 or 1904( I would have to check team changes to confirm the year). And it's possible ALL of the overprints were redemptions and stamped at the same time. They all run they same direction and many have wet print transfer from the back stamp to the fronts as they were stacked.

There are so few cards and so many differences, many possibilities exist.

[e107collector]

Scott,

After looking at your Delehanty's side by side, the Type 2 on the right has a nicer, more vivid image.

Tony