T206 Blank Backs - What are they?

[iggyman]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Are there any blank fronts known? Can't recall ever seeing or reading about one.

If in 1909, I wuz 9 years old and if my uncle Gilbert gave me a blank front T206 card. Well, paper shredders were apparently invented in 1935 but to tell you the truth I wouldn't have needed one.

Lovely Day...

[Brian-Chidester]

Great thread. I have nothing significant to add, but blank back T206s have always fascinated me, because I had the feeling that, waiting in a pile of blank backs, would be some alternate players not in the set. When those eight Southern Leaguers showed up in Olbermann's article a few years back, that was the coolest.

[onlychild]

Are there any blank fronts known? Can't recall ever seeing or reading about one.

Sure, I have several but as you can probably guess they are all Franken-206's. They look absolutely perfect with not a single fiber out of place...just no pic on front. Haven't made one for some time, just wanted to see it could be done.

Kevin Saucier

[toppcat]

Well, my point was if there were blank fronts you might know which was printed first, front or back. Evidence still points to fronts first but I would not be surprised if in some cases backs were printed first too. Like all this other esoterica associated with T206 backs that never saw the inside of a pack, they all seem like scrap or part of the proof process so any true blank fronts would have entered the hobby the same way the other stuff did-via either an old find at ALC or the odds and ends kept by ALC employees or management.