New theory regarding the T206 brown LENOX cards....show us some of these rare dudes

[Sean]

The color on the Lenox is darker than the brown on the Hindu. The brown Old Mills seem easy to explain. The Southern Leaguers were printed with three backs, Old Mill (black), Hindu (brown), and Piedmont (blue). It appears that a printer made an error and used the brown ink on a sheet of Old Mills, but caught the mistake and scrapped the sheet. That is why all Brown Old Mills are hand cut.

The Lenox are printed with a darker Brown. I've always thought that the ink matches the shade of brown used to print the player and team names at the bottom of the cards. It doesn't seem to have been caught by the printers the way the OMs were.

Thanks for the thread Ted.Your Cairo connection makes sense to me,but I'm no expert on that set.

[MVSNYC]

Question- can a Lenox subject come with either black or brown back? Or are there certain players exclusive to each, like it is the case with Brown Hindu and Red Hindu? (And to confirm, am I correct about that- if a player comes with Brown Hindu, you won't find him with Red?)

[tedzan]

Here are the 23 confirmed brown LENOX cards......

350/460 series

Bradley (bat)
Burch (fielding)
Cobb (bat off shoulder)
Conroy (bat)
Jordan (bat)
Lajoie (bat)
Lake (no ball)
Leach (cap)
Leifield (bat)
Manning (pitching)
McQuillan (bat)
Overall (yellow sky)
Pfeister (throwing)
F. Smith (Chicago & Boston)
Wagner (bat on right shoulder)
Willetts
Willis (bat)


460-only series

Chase (trophy)
Latham
Marquard (pitching)
Merkle (throwing)
Schlei (portrait)
Wiltse (portrait-cap)

Twenty of these subjects also have black LENOX backs. Conroy, Pfeister, and Wagner have yet to be confirmed with black LENOX backs.


TED Z
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[MVSNYC]

Hi Ted, thanks for the list. That makes it very clear to me.

Was I correct regarding Red/Brown Hindu? If a particular player comes with one back, then they cannot come with the other?

[Pat R]

Was there another Lajoie Lenox confirmed? I thought the one that was originally confirmed as Black was determined to be Brown. I also thought
that Overall (hand at face) was only confirmed with a Brown Lenox.