What's the real deal with these Cuban cards?

[ElCabron]

Originally Posted by ernestohur68

Ryan rolando said that the images used in nacionales and aguilitas second serie is the same in some cases as mendez card. Check it. One more time cards are originals. You said that you will truth in rolando words and this is what he said.

Yes, there are many examples of the same image being used in different cards. Not cards produced over 10 years apart, though. Those Mendez cards are 1 year apart.

-Ryan

[ernestohur68]

IT JUST MEANS THAT THEY COULD BE FROM 1911 AND 1915. Rolando has to go to his house. I am very happy for what I do for him and for the world of collecting baseball cards. Now everybody know who he is. If any user have any doubt that want to translate to Rolando I will do it to him. Rolando is a great person and it is very cooperative. GOOD LUCK

[slidekellyslide]

Net54 just had a public conference call from Cuba...that's pretty cool.

[ElCabron]

Originally Posted by ernestohur68

IT JUST MEANS THAT THEY COULD BE FROM 1911 AND 1915.

No, those back scans I posted earlier prove rather conclusively that it absolutely CANNOT be from 1911 or 1915. Has to be from 1922 or whenever the amateur cards were produced. The only other possibility is that they're fake.

And yes, we know Rolando says they're real. It's okay not to say it again.

-Ryan

[ernestohur68]

HE SAID THAT IT COULD BE VERY POSSIBLE than they are from 1922. Other expert. Other expert from the island Jaime Clavel told me that it is almost sure than they are from 1922 and he said that it was very commun used same pictures in different brands of cards. he said that photographs in that time it was not like today. That it should be impossible take pictures to the players every time a brand want to made a card. He mentioned that later issues show player from earliest time, it is very comun in Cuban cards.

[ElCabron]

I'm not familiar with the common practice of using the earliest image of a player on a Cuban baseball card. Do you know of any other examples? I don't.

-Ryan

[Scocs]

....and there you go. One day after I first created this thread, it was dry as a bone. Now with over 2000 views and 83 posts, I can say thanks to all involved.

A fun and educational experience!

Scott