Searching for a "Pirate" Cobb....show us these extremely rare "T215" cards ?

[ethicsprof]

Ted,
great looking pack!!!
i,too, have a pirates pack from the great and gracious Jon Canfield but have
been searching months for a reasonably priced card to go with it.
i'm thinking we may have to go with a non-baseball pirate and just show the back!!
best,
barry

[ullmandds]

I have bunches of the oriental character pirate cards...but no baseball. I almost bought one from Davis Festburg at the 95 nat'l...but I mistook his 1500 pricetag for $150. When I realized it was 1500...I walked away!!!!

[sb1]

wish I knew how to make them bigger.

http://members.auctionhawk.com/sb1/2936144-scan0002.jpg


http://members.auctionhawk.com/sb1/2936145-scan0003.jpg

[Orioles1954]

I've been meaning to post a thread about this. What is the origins of the Pirate set being ascribed as T215....which is a Louisiana issue? No copy of the ACC has ever shown T215 as including the Pirate subset. Shouldn't these cards be ascribed as T-UNC? It is irrelevent to me that these were printed at the same time period, for a completely different market.

[tedzan]

Fine, show us your oriental character pirate cards......as, I don't think we are going to see any great number of BB cards.


TED Z

[tedzan]

1st......I have been skeptical of the claim that the T215 cards are a Louisiana issue. The Red Cross
backs have a New Jersey Factory on them.

2nd......I somewhat agree with you, the Pirate issue should have it's own classification (T-xyz). As,
it is white-bordered set that was issued abroad.


TED Z

[White Borders]

Not mine (but I wish it was!) and I don't remember where I got the scan.

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by tedzan

1st......I have been skeptical of the claim that the T215 cards are a Louisiana issue. The Red Cross
backs have a New Jersey Factory on them.

2nd......I somewhat agree with you, the Pirate issue should have it's own classification (T-xyz). As,
it is white-bordered set that was issued abroad.


TED Z

Points are well taken. Although printed from a New Jersey factory, does that preclude them from being shipped to Louisiana? Where did the legend of Red Cross originating in Louisiana come from? Additionally, who decided in the hobby to give this the T215 designation and why was it accepted?