S74 White series silks

[BobC]

Ron,

I'll get them scanned and post copies tomorrow but, a question for you. I know you have a heck of a silk collection yourself. I'm a bit surprised but, you really don't already have ad-backed copies of both Tony Smiths, one with the Rustlers and one with the Superbas, and a Steinfeldt with the Cubs?

I know the Tony Smith with the Rustlers is really really tough but, I didn't think Steinfeldt with the Cubs was that hard to find. Are you sure you're not confusing that with a Steinfeldt playing for the Rustlers ad-backed silk, which I believe does not exist in the white version silks at all? I've got three Steinfeldt-Cubs silks with the ad-backing still attached myself, so I know those can't be that tough to find. I'll scan what I have so you can see them tomorrow then.

Still, I thought I heard through the grapevine that you already had a complete set of all the ad-backed white silks, minus the 5 that don't actually exist. Without those 5 it leaves a total of 87 different players/silks that you should be able to find in the S74-1 white version with ads still attached then to have a complete set. I'd been stalled at 79 different myself for a few years till I was able to finally find a Carrigan a little earlier this year. Now I'm up to 80 different with the ads still attached, and down to 7 to go.

By the way, thanks for the initial post about silks. You rarely see anyone bring up S-74 silks in the forum at all. Nice change of pace from the usual postings and stuff everyone always talks about. And have you noticed how many other people have chimed in on this thread........? No wonder these silks are way undervalued in my opinion, they don't get a lot of love it seems.

BobC

[ValKehl]

Ron, here's a Steinfeldt:

[BobC]

Val,

Very nice, and a Red Sun back to boot! Very rare!

[rsst206]

Hi Val,
Thanks for posting the Steinfeldt. Bob you are correct I do have the Cubs version. It was the Rustlers version that I am missing that I have always assumed it was a checklist mistake. Besides the other checklist mistakes. I am only missing the Smith with the Rustlers and would love to see it.

Ron

[BobC]

Ron,

Here are scans of my Tony Smith white version, ad-backed S74-1 silks with both the Superbas and the Rustlers. I also included copies of the three ad-backed Steinfeldt - Cubs silks that I have, to go along with the one Val posted.

It sounds like you basically have all the ad-backed silks that are possible then, except for Tony Smith with the Rustlers. Good luck, this one I have is the only one I've ever seen.

BobC

[rsst206]

Bob
Awesome card!
Thank you for sharing
Ron

[BobC]

Ron,

Thanks.

My initial guess as to the rarity of a Tony Smith - Rustlers silk would be that after they produced some of them, they quickly realized they screwed up as it was supposed to be Harry Smith on the Superbas silks. So they probably just pulled them entirely from production and basically short-printed them.

BobC