Maybe not a W575, maybe not a D383, but how about an E?

[kmac32]

I would say it is a Koester Bread card

[wonkaticket]

Not sure, but sure that's a neat card. Nice one.

[Brian Van Horn]

Thank you, John.

[Leon]

If the player is only in D383 then I personally would call it a D383 with a stamp on the back. If it is a player in the other W and E sets then I would call it a W575-1. I classify most back stamped, E121-like cards as W575 such as Burdick did. To each their own though.....

[nolemmings]

That same message can be found on the backs of American Caramel E123 Actors & Actresses, which more closely aligns with the issuance date of the Koester cards than does E124 (which were supposedly issued in 1923 per Google). I don't collect non-sports, and there seems to be a disagreement as to when E123s were first issued--Google has articles/ads for them represented as 1920, 1921 or 1922. The fronts of these actress cards are patterned after the ornate-framed E120s and not the square-framed e121s. They also have a blank-backed counterpart, W585, which could have been stamped.

It seems your card has a Koester's only subject, which dates it to late 1921. So it seems to line up with E123/W585. I’m having trouble picturing how a confectionery company employee stamping the backs of piles of W585s would somehow accidentally stamp a baseball card laying around. Maybe the same company also was privy to the Koester cards and had a separate stamp for those? Anyway, it would seem that the company would likely be located in the NYC area where Koester’s were distributed.

[ValKehl]

Todd, I know next to nothing about non-sports cards, but I have long believed that E123 refers to the Curtis Ireland Candy baseball cards. Is there a non-sports issue with this same ACC #?
Val

[nolemmings]

Todd, I know next to nothing about non-sports cards, but I have long believed that E123 refers to the Curtis Ireland Candy baseball cards. Is there a non-sports issue with this same ACC #?

Apparently so Val, here's the description and checklist in case you want to start the set

http://www.moviecard.com/zamerican/a...mcar-e123.html

Here's an old auction for a complete set plus album:
http://aug13.hugginsandscott.com/cgi...=318&lotno=698

Here's a typical back: