e107 Delehanty Type 2 or.....??

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Posted By: Brian McQueen

I'll respond to a few of the more recent posts here.

The Delehanty does look brighter than the Doyle as the Doyle has some toning on the front that the Delehanty doesn't. However aside from that, I can clearly see that the same material went into the production of the surfaces of the two cards. The back is a different story. The Doyle had a greyish back when it was new, as did the other cards. I think one of those other ones has a brownish back but that is toning on a back that was once grey. In other words, the other four type 2s were made from a greyish material to begin with, where as this Delehanty was produced from a material which is as white as a sheet. "Exposure" has nothing to do with this. These are two different backs as a whole.

I do not believe that the card has been rebacked as I can also easily see the top and sides of the card, which are also white. The "whiteness" extends all the way up to the surface where it becomes the same drab grey colored material the other cards are consisted of. There is also no signs of any layering or anything present that would lead me to believe that a layer has either been added or subtracted from the card. This all-white back looks identical to that of the n162 Brouthers I sold on Ebay a while back as well as several e95/e96 notebook cards I still have in my collection. I included a link to that n162 Brouthers below:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8724214232&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESO%3AIT&rd=1

The big difference between the two cards (Brouthers and Delehanty) is that the Brouthers was produced with gleaming white cardboard all the way through the card (as evidenced by the chip on his chin). The Delehanty is white all the way up to the surface.

My conclusion that I'm drawing in the interim (and largely because I'm too chicken to try and bust the card out of it's slab for a closer look) is that this card came from an advertising piece of some sort where as the others more than likely came from a small, thin box which held the small packages of candy that also contained the Type 1s.