Red Sun - Is it really a Louisiana exclusive?

[G1911]

They survived until at least late 1919. Here's a registration renewal from the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, found in vol. 274.

Note that use is claimed since 1903 - same brand as the once-Universal brand.

[Leon]

As a "back of the card" collector, I like them...

[tedzan]

Hi Leon....I like them, too.


Here is my Ed Greminger run.






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TED Z

T206 Reference
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[G1911]

Here's some of the "puglistic" subjects. Someone at ALC or Brett or whoever wasn't a good speller.

Some of the boxers are evidently short printed. The 1908 date placed on them is another hobby fiction. They are almost certainly Q2 1910 or later.

The two cards of Mike and Jack Sullivan, twins, use the same exact photograph cropped differently. I'm 90% sure it's actually Jack on both cards.

[gabrinus]

That's cool Greg...Jerry

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by G1911

Here's some of the "puglistic" subjects. Someone at ALC or Brett or whoever wasn't a good speller.

Some of the boxers are evidently short printed. The 1908 date placed on them is another hobby fiction. They are almost certainly Q2 1910 or later.

The two cards of Mike and Jack Sullivan, twins, use the same exact photograph cropped differently. I'm 90% sure it's actually Jack on both cards.

Pretty amazing collection!

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that I have seen way more Red Sun pugilists than ballplayers.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Pretty amazing collection!

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that I have seen way more Red Sun pugilists than ballplayers.

I don't really know the baseball's as well to estimate, but pop reports are very very similar between T211 and T226. The supply in Red Sun boxers has been very high the last couple years due to a couple sell-offs of collections, which is how I built this many up. There was a pretty sizable supply of them in 2011-2013 range as well. People have tended to build up a number and then sell them off, so we see the same handful of copies cycling every few years. I think been more stacks like I have with the boxing, than with the baseball where there is a lot more of the cards in type collections rather than in set collections. I still need a T211 type someday.

I note the boxers do not come with the 'fat borders' that you see on the baseball subjects, like the three shown here. Even your handcut or trimmed Babb has significantly thicker borders. I like the thick borders.

I would estimate no more than 30 copies each of the white boxers in the hobby (some of which may be short printed to some extent as well); pop's max out at about 15 and the majority of these in the hobby seem to have entered slabs. Most of these 34 are crackouts. Adam and some of the other boxing guys probably have a better guesstimate than I. Any of of our T211 collectors have population estimates for the Southern subjects? The evidence that the 4 black 'puglistic subjects' were short printed is compelling, I think. It probably indicates some very interesting distribution pattern, but that is conjecture. The sheet layout must have been bizarre.

[Pat R]

It appears that The Universal Tobacco Company was another Tobacco Company that was actually owned by the ATC either from the beginning or a lot longer than it would seem.


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