1929 - 1930 R315 Anonymous Issue 1933 Maybe?

[brianp-beme]

Thanks Dan for supplying images. I never really paid much attention to these cards...I am not much of collector of larger size issues.

Looking at the Old Cardboard site, the two cards you linked to would be considered Type 'B', due to the white panel at bottom of photo with name and team, AND name and team information printed on white frame on bottom, as seen in the two examples Dan provided.

To me it would seem logical that these Type B cards had two different print runs, the first scarcer run possibly as early as sometime in 1928 (due to the printed bottom border Giants designation on Lefty's card, and a second, more widely produced run in 1931 (based on the O'Doul with Brooklyn designation on bottom border, and the fact that it appears that Smead Jolley also has a Type B which pictures him in a White Sox uniform, which could have at the earliest have been produced in early 1930, due to his trade to White Sox in November of 1929).

The Jolley Type B card also make it unlikely that the second run was produced in 1933, because he was traded to the Boston Red Sox on April 29th, 1932, but is still identified on bottom panel as being with the White Sox.

So to me this set, with its various formats, may have been produced between the years 1928 and 1931.

Brian (by the way the Old Cardboard site rocks, as it has a photo gallery of the R315 set which helped me immensely).