Please Show your Type 1 Red Cross (T215-1) & Coupons (T213-1)

[tedzan]

Mike "Turkey" Donlin.......one of my favorite guys pictured on one of my favorite COUPON cards.

Although his caption states...... ".300 batter 7 years" .....his career BA = .333 which was good enough for Donlin to be in the HOF.
That's if he had taken his Major League BB career more seriously, instead of seeking an acting career in vaudeville and the movies.

One thing is for certain, Donlin was the "toast of the town" in New York City, where all these White-Bordered cards were printed.







TED Z

[edhans]

I'm a little surprised by the 6:1 ratio (by my rough count) of T213 to T215 so far in this thread. It's far from a scientific survey, of course, but given the recent hype of Coupon 1s, I would have considered their scarcity level more in line with that of the Red Crosses.

[DixieBaseball]

Originally Posted by edhans

I'm a little surprised by the 6:1 ratio (by my rough count) of T213 to T215 so far in this thread. It's far from a scientific survey, of course, but given the recent hype of Coupon 1s, I would have considered their scarcity level more in line with that of the Red Crosses.

Ed - I am to blame a little here as I don't collect Red Crosses and I have dumped several Type 1 Coupon examples in the thread as this is what I collect and have done so for years. You are right... This thread is very far from scientific regarding ratios, so I would not read anything into what you are seeing....

Red Cross and Coupon Type 1's are both rare cards. Extremely difficult to find...

[DixieBaseball]

For comparison sake, there are about twice as many Pirate backs graded as there are Type 2 Red Cross and there are less Type 1 Red Cross than Type 2's, so that should give you an idea of how rare these rascals are...

Also, a little further data from some research I did last year... I can only document on average 3 graded examples of each player in the Coupon Type 1 set. (Keep in mind this is graded examples from PSA, SGC & BVG) I am sure some raw Type 1's exist, but to put futher perspective on this, imagine if you were wanting a T206 Red Cobb, and there were only 3 or 4 examples ever graded. They would simply rarely come available for sale and prices would be intense. (I think I remember Leon crowing about how cheap he got his Type 1 Coupon Red Cobb last year, and I agree....) Something further to consider... How many Red Cobb Ty Cobb backs are there graded ? Now, take a peek at how many Red Cobb Type 1 Coupon's that are graded. The numbers are very interesting....

[buymycards]

Just received this yesterday. Pretty rough but that's OK.

Rick