Type Card Collecting

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Posted By: Millerhouse

GlenV,

You've missed my point, I think. And, truly, as far as type card collecting goes, every collector should set his own goal and more power to him should he complete it.

My only point is that the American Card Catalog never designated Pirate Cigarette cards as T215s; T215 was assigned to the two Red Cross varieties. Somewhere along the way someone lumped the Pirate cards in with the Red Cross cards. Who did it, when and why? From where I sit, I can see no earthly reason whatsoever for connecting Pirates and Red Crosses. They share T206 designs with brown captions, but so do T206s and T213-1s. I'm just trying to get to the bottom of something that, to me, makes no sense.

Also, I suspect that SCD's checklist of Pirates is a fantasy. It lists 92 different, and I doubt that more than 92 total have been found. Again, I suspect that it was originally cadged from a T215-1 checklist, but my thesis is that there is absolutely no reason for making this connection.

Dan Gantt