T207 Napoleon back confirmation thread.

[frohme]

Originally Posted by Leon

Thanks for your research for the hobby, Mike.

(for those that don't know, Mike and I played little league together...small world)

Thanks, Leon - ahhhh to be back in those days, knowing what we know now...

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I can imagine you two in the dugout, Mike digging out a prewar type card from the back pocket of his uniform to swap Leon for a Broadleaf T207 on Mike's wantlist.

Brian

That was good for a laugh, Brian - well played.

[frohme]

Have an update based on a run-through of SGC's pop-report for T207 Napoleon ... which I've been through before, but not recently... I hesitate to use Pop Reports in general, and though SGC is the only one that covers the T207 backs (AFAIK), they're not always good at getting them right. That said, I'm including the results here for completeness (with questionable accuracy)... i.e. take from this what you will.

Of the 257 Napoleon's recorded as of today (14 Nov, 2024) ... 124 different poses are present. Ferry leads all comers with 7 copies, Collins and McGraw are close behind with 6 and Wiltse and Zeider are nipping at their heels with 5. The most telling numbers are that 47 poses only have 1 copy graded, with another 42 only having 2, for a combined 89 of the 124 poses.

There was one surprise, as there is a graded copy of Erwin - presently unconfirmed - reducing the number unconfirmed by 1. He is now marked with a * as was previously the custom. None of the 'corrected' variations was present in the report, nor any of the other 4 unconfirmed poses - Graney, Mitchell (Willie), Northen, Sullivan.

[frohme]

Adding confirmation of Jack Graney, with input from a board member - thanks for the photos, Tom!



Graney takes the unconfirmed T207 Napoleon list down to just 8 or 9, with 5 of those being the 'corrected' variations...with Willie Mitchell, Northen, Sullivan as the true holdouts at this point. As ever, any and all input warmly welcomed!

Thanks!
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Mike

[frohme]

From REA Lot 576 last night ...

Not my card ...


So only Willie Mitchell and Northen are left as the non-variations, though visual confirmation of Erwin from the SGC pop report is still needed. No other changes - all 5 of the 'corrected' Recruit variations are still unconfirmed. Count is now 147/150 (or 155) confirmed.

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Mike

[frohme]

I went back through the originating list to see which ones for which there was still no 'confirmational image'. Found that 10 of the original 89 still had no confirming image. Added them to the list and changed original post to include the requirement of an image/scan for confirmation...

If you have an image of any of these T207 Napoleons, I'd appreciate it if you could please post it here for (re)confirmation. Thanks!

• Block
• Chalmers
• Erwin
• Golden
• Higgins
• Perdue
• Rucker
• Schulte
• Simon
• Stack
• Wheat

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Mike

[kmac32]

From REA Sunday

[frohme]

Well done, Ken! I completely missed that one ... might have got me out of retirement :-)