1935 Goudey - A "puzzling" set (Let's see some completed puzzles)

[LuckyLarry]

of course I love the 1935 Goudey set and a few years ago completed the 114 card master set of front/back combinations. Here's a scanned copy of the checklist if anyone finds it useful.

There are four Babe Ruth cards including two with tough backs (4A 5A) nice to pull them out this morning (stored in TCVS Mylar Sleeves).

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

of course I love the 1935 Goudey set and a few years ago completed the 114 card master set of front/back combinations. Here's a scanned copy of the checklist if anyone finds it useful.

There are four Babe Ruth cards including two with tough backs (4A 5A) nice to pull them out this morning (stored in TCVS Mylar Sleeves).

That’s impressive LuckyLarry. I would have to imagine there aren’t too many master sets out there. These cards aren’t rare, but they are definitely more scarce than the 1933 or 1934 set. And the effort it would take to find all the back combinations seems like it would take some time. Like I said, I MAY someday try and get the 72 different puzzle pieces, but the master set probably is out of my budget and patience limit.

I actually built my own checklist and rare back list based on the PSA pop report, so I’ll cross reference mine against yours to see if I have all the rare backs listed correctly.

As it turned out, my beat up Ruth happened to be one of the rare ones (5A) so that was kind of cool.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

of course I love the 1935 Goudey set and a few years ago completed the 114 card master set of front/back combinations. Here's a scanned copy of the checklist if anyone finds it useful.

There are four Babe Ruth cards including two with tough backs (4A 5A) nice to pull them out this morning (stored in TCVS Mylar Sleeves).

I decided to start on this set a few months ago, and the checklist you posted has been very helpful. I just picked up a large lot and have now completed puzzles 3, 5 and 7. I have never posted pictures, but if I can figure out how, I will post my completed puzzles.

[paul]

So are the collages of the Indians and the Senators the exact same as appeared in the R309-2 set?

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Originally Posted by paul

So are the collages of the Indians and the Senators the exact same as appeared in the R309-2 set?

Paul, my initial answer to your question was going to be "Yes", because the images I have seen of the R309-2 Indians and Senators team cards looked like they were the same images as the completed puzzles of those teams (which you can see posted above in this thread).

HOWEVER, I decided to double check, and realized, that NO, the images are not identical. They are similar, but not the same. I have posted a picture below to see the comparisons. The images on the left are the R309-2 cards, and the images on the right are the completed puzzles.

The changes are more drastic on the Senators image. While it appears the same players are present, the images have been rearranged and cropped a little differently...and in particular the Manush image was moved from the lower right in the R309-2 to the upper left in the puzzle.

The changes in the Indians image are a little more subtle, but there are differences in some of the cropping and a design elements.

I'm glad you asked the question, but I never would have realized they were different!

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[paul]

Thanks. I wonder why they made the changes.

[jayshum]

I completed the master set with the 5A Ruth from the last REA auction. It's the only card still in a slab (since it is an SGC 5 and much nicer than every other card in my set), so unfortunately, I can't put it in the binder with the rest of the set. Here are pictures of all the puzzles including the half of puzzle 1 from the short prints. For puzzles 2-7, each one is made up of the more common backs and the short print backs separately. Enjoy.

[LuckyLarry]

Congratulations Jay!