Identifying E101 and E102 purely by the front (E8, E78 tie in)

[G1911]

To see if we may get any information on dating E78 and some baseball issue, I took a look at E8's checklist and looked up each ship, noting its commission date and any significant change in naming or scrapping of the ship between 1908-1912, when the cards are almost certainly printed. The results are most interesting for the U.S.S. Connecticut, though a ship may well have used a slightly old name, attention to detail was probably not perfect for a minor card release that was likely just a premium. The results are shown in the table below (which probably won't format on Net54):
U.S.S. Alabama - 1900
U.S.C. Albany - Cruiser in commission 1900-1904, 1907-1913, 1914, and 1916-1922.
U.S.S. Brooklyn - 1896
U.S.S. Charleston - 1905
U.S.S. Connecticut - 1903, renamed the U.S.S. Tonopah on March 2, 1909. Another Connecticut existed at this time but this one seems to match the card art and the larger battleship does not.
U.S.S. Indiana - 1895
U.S.S. Iowa - 1897
U.S.S. Kearsarge - 1898
U.S.S. Kentucky - 1898
U.S.S. Maine - 1901
U.S.S. Massachusetts - 1896
U.S.S. Minneapolis - 1894
U.S. Monitor Puritan - 1896, Monitor is the class of ship
U.S.S. New Jersey - 1906
U.S.C. New Orleans and Torpedo Boat Somers - both 1898
U.S.C. New York - 1893, renamed the Saratoga on February 16, 1911
U.S.S. Olympia - 1895
U.S.S. Oregon - 1896
U.S.S. Pennsylvania - 1903, renamed the U.S.S. Pittsburgh in 1912.
U.S.S. Philadelphia - 1890
U.S.S. Rhode Island - 1906
U.S.S. Texas - 1895, renamed the U.S.S. San Marcos in February 1911 and later that same year was used for target practice and sunk.
U.S.C. Topeka - 1898
U.S.S. Virginia - 1906
To be strictly correct, the set was released in 1906 or later, and before March 2, 1909 when the U.S.S. Connecticut was renamed. Other ships were renamed or scrapped in 1911. This may be indicate of a relatively early release date in 1909 among cards catalogued as E sets. I would be surprised if it was as early as 1908, but this is entirely possible. Not enough is known to responsibly draw any firm conclusions at this juncture.