The E91 American Caramel Sets...Generic or Name Brand by Brian Parker

[birdman42]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

To me the E91C set is fairly worthless...just get one for your type collection.
Brian

Brian, I couldn't agree more.

Jim, can you send me that fairly worthless WAJO? It'll work in my type collection. I'll even pay some toward postage.

Bill

[brianp-beme]

I have mentioned that most of the E91A cards share a facial likeness to the actual subject, which is then attached to a generic body, but 5 years or more ago I believe it was Runscott who shared a full-body pitching photo of Reulbach, either on the net54 site or for crying out loud the old Full Count board, that is exactly the same as pictured on his E91 cards. I didn't save the image (old computer crash go boom), but because of its existence I believe the artists used available photo sources to create these cards. As my article stresses it seems that most of these photos were portraits, but like in the case of Reulbach fuller body shots could have been used on a handful as well. Maybe someone can track down the Reulbach side action shot, or perhaps runscott could come out of the woodworks and help make my point.

Brian

[brianp-beme]

You have to love the Library of Congress site...here is a link to a T204 Breshnahan, Tinker and Plank

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displa.../~ammem_UOFl::

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displa.../~ammem_UOFl::

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displa.../~ammem_UOFl::

Brian

[Steve D]

Thank you Brian, for all the work and providing the information to us.

I laugh every time I see the E91 Plank, at what looks like a golf ball in his hands...but it is my favorite card in the set

Steve

[toppcat]

It looks like each team had a separate artist. Those Athletics look to be the the best executed and it seems the Cubs are rendered as thinly as possible in the depictions of their torsos and lower bodies. The Giants look a bit more full bodied to my eye. Great article!

[Vintagecatcher]

Brian,

Here is a scan of my M116 Kling with your Kling E91:












Patrick

[brianp-beme]

Thanks all, and thanks to those who have posted on the M116 thread...I will get up the comparision cards all you have scanned when I can. And a special thanks to Rhett, whose Colgan's (they were not in the Classic Baseball Cards book, so I think I only briefly thought of them) are great to compare against the E91's. Here is some of exact (Steinfeldt, Davis and Waddell), and not exact but pretty conclusive (Schulte) examples. I will endeavor to update the index with the new E254 Colgan examples.