Western Association Old Judges

[oldjudge]

Let me add another to cover St Paul in 1888. This is an interesting card in that it is an error that we didn't pick up until after the book was published. The card is pictured in the book as Varney Anderson pose 7-2. That alone would make it a rare card. However, as was later discovered, the card does not picture Varney Anderson but Peek-A-Boo Veach. As such, the card is now listed as Veach pose 472.5-6, making it an error card of another rare player.

[nebboy]

One more and it's a pink one

[ctownboy]

Here are my three contributions. My Klusman card says "Denvers" on the photo while the picture in the Old Judge book shows the word "Denver" overwritten on the card. Does this make my card an error or variation or is this normal with Old Judge cards?

Also, I have a card of Ned Williamson. In the Old Judge book, the pose I have shows his name at the bottom of the card as "E Williamson" whereas the card I own shows it as "C W Williamson" again, is this an error or variation that is new or is this to be expected?

Finally, I bought all of my Old Judge cards at an estate auction about 20 years ago. The eight cards I bought are these three, the Williamson (Chicagos), Faatz (Cleveland), Van Haltren (Chicagos) plus an Anson, Ewing and a Rusie.

It seems odd that most of my cards are of players from the Midwest and West and not from the East Coast. Since these cards were purchased in Indiana, could it mean that if these stayed local all of these years, these were intentionally distributed in the Midwest?

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David

[oldjudge]

Hi David! Klusman started the 1889 season with Milwaukee and then moved to Denver. Goodwin & Company was good at updating player moves on their cards. In the case of Klusman, they did a quick update by removing the Milwaukee team designation from the nameplate of the card and writing in Denver. It was, excuse my French, a half ass job. "Milwaukee" remained on Klusman's uniform and you can still see "Milwaukee" written in for N173 identification on the photo. Some time later they corrected this with a typeset team designation. At the same time they obscured the team name from his jersey and on the lower portion of the negative. I have shown the progression below.
The wrong name for Williamson is not unusual. It happened a lot, but this should not be surprising. There were thousands of different cards being produced and the people handling the production may not have known anything about the players.
I have no idea about the distribution, although what you suggest is certainly possible.

[ctownboy]

oldjudge,

Thanks for the explanation and an example of what you were talking about.

I know with this set that when you add in all of the variations there are thousands of different cards and that what I own probably falls within those known variations. However, I also knew that there might be a small chance that I own something that nobody has seen before.

David