N284 Buchner Gold Coin Set

[darkhorse9]

Asking because I'm a noob on sets like this.

Do the actors and police captains cards have more value being part of this set than they would if they were a complete non-sport set of their own?

[teza11]

Here's my two cents. The non-player cards in this set get their value from being a Buchner issue. Buchner cards regardless of series command a premium over most other card issuers.

Jeff

[Jay Wolt]

Here's another of Brogan, though the card & image looks different then Jeff's example

[insidethewrapper]

http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/z-ns-st...l-buchner.html

[teza11]

Jay,

The police captains were issued both with and without the brand name at top.

You can find a gallery of many N284 police captains at the below link.

http://www.non-sport.com/sets/7564

Once on the page, the below arrow shows you where to click to see the gallery.

Jeff

[RCMcKenzie]

Okay, here's what I've found...

There are 3 different back types, 5 different backs including litho companys.

I'll call them
A1 Leading Baseball Players- Giles & Liberty
A2 Leading Baseball Players- Donaldson Bros.
B Police, baseball, actors, jockeys - Julius Bien
C Police, baseball, actors, jockeys, chiefs of fire depts- Donaldson Bros
C2 " " -Ballin 1888

A1 Giles is only found in the "generic subset"
A2 Donaldson is only found in Lipset's "all the rest subset, or like images"
B Only found on most Browns cards, and actors and Jockeys and captains
C Found in all 3 of Lipset's subsets
D Only found on "type 2" Police captains

Here is the checklist coded by back so far. I'll post scans that I made later on.

[RCMcKenzie]

Note that the front of the Browns cards with the "Chiefs of Fire Dept." backs are a little different than the Julius Bien backs. The shirts are a different shade of brownish-red.
The Van der ahe looks like the actors and jockeys with this same back, Julius Bien. I've sorted and grouped my cards by back. I still think the 3 traditional subsets are interesting, however I am no longer classifying my collection that way.