T209 Website launch

[kkkkandp]

Very nice looking and interesting site!

[Michael Peich]

Scott,

Thank you for your kind words.

Yes, I agree on Beusse and Kite as the other players on the panels. I had come to the same conclusion, but in my haste to launch the site on Opening Day I forgot to note those clarifications in the narrative! I'll do so later today.

I'm not as certain about the panels as advertising. I originally thought they were advertising pieces, as Tim and I noted in our Old Cardboard essay on T209-I. But the more I became aware of the photos and the way they were taken, proof sheets made more sense to me.

That being said, maybe the website will help uncover some new information that will clarify the panels' origin. Stay tuned!

Cheers,
Mike

[sb1]

Mike,

I am fairly sure these were originally part of a larger piece and cut apart, but do not match on the cuts, I think there may have been more to it. Perhaps photo or maybe only text?? I doubt we will ever know lest an intact one surfaces. I think the stock is much too heavy to have been any type of printing process example, but a finished display or advertising piece.

Scott

[shernan30]

Nice site. Can't wait to read through it to learn a little more about the set.

[RGold]

Mike, very nice website. You may want to check how the site appears for iPad users.

[frankbmd]

T209 Series One Pope and T206 Clancy are pictured in front of the same building in the background. Take a look

Pope is pictured in a Raleigh uniform



Clancy is pictured in a Buffalo uniform



I suspect that the Contentnea cards were produced in NYC like the T206s and that the same artist may have been responsible for the background, but........

Have we ever figured out if the building in the background really existed?

Granted the building on Pope's card has 4 little doohickeys below the roof on the left side and on Clancy's card there are only 3 little doohickeys, but the similarity of the rendition of the building is otherwise striking. Artistic License??

Clancy played briefly for the Pirates in 1905 and then exclusively for both Buffalo and Rochester until 1912.

Ashley Pope was a nineteen year old rookie in 1909 for Raleigh and never played outside the South.

It does not appear they ever played close to one another in the 1908-1910 time span or at any other time for that matter.

Just wondering as this is the first time I have looked at the Series 1 Contentnea cards.

If I'm all wet, so be it (it wont be the first time). Just thought it was worth a post. Thanks for the website Michael, which should help educate the Contentnea novices on the board.

[ethicsprof]

great work on the website.
I've appreciated your research(and Prof. Tim's) in this area of vintage
scholarship for some time now.
all the best,
barry

[ullmandds]

Very nice site, Mike!


Frank...keen observation! But are you sure they are doohickeys and not thigamabobs?

[wonkaticket]

Mike, amazing site!!!