R317 Uncle Jacks color subset- complete..finally

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by Archive

Posted By: leon

I am a longtime collector who visits your fascinating forum occasionally under the cover of darkness. Over the years I have handled many Uncle Jacks, extracting my set from the Springfield, Mass., "find" in the 70s and susequently noticing any others that popped up in the New England region since then. The Uncle Jacks in that find of 100+ unopened packs were all blue, red or purple, and no player appeared in more than two colors. While I don't have two complete sets, I compared notes with the other two collectors who wound up with most of the find and none of us had any green ones, nor players in three different color schemes.
Some of the handful of Uncle Jacks I've seen that definitely came out of vintage collections are printed on a slightly different stock cardboard and have white backs like your Wilson, while the "find" contained only gray-back cards, usually bearing a slight stain from the double sticks of gum included. Since the gray-back cards have crisper images than the white-back Uncle Jacks I've seen, I've wondered whether the white backs were a second printing, not reprints, however.
Anyway, it would be interesting to determine whether any Uncle Jacks appear in all four color schemes.
By the way, you've probably noticed that the photos used for the Uncle Jacks were also the source for many R306s and R337s, likely originating with Baseball Magazine.
Keep up the good work on Network54."

What do we know today about the colors of these cards? Do we know if any of the players come in more than two colors?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by leftygrove10

What do we know today about the colors of these cards? Do we know if any of the players come in more than two colors?

Figure this thread is good for one more bump and to answer a few questions.

Don't know if the players came in more than 2 colors but I don't know why they wouldn't?

Also, just shot an email to Lyman to possibly update the colors he has listed on Oldcardboard. He doesn't list green or gray. regards

[lhardem]

Thanks for the note, Leon. The R317 Profile Page has now been updated on the Old Cardboard website. We always welcome and appreciate that kind of feedback. Congrats on your completing the color type set.

Lyman