1950 Tinghalls World Cup Backs Thread

[aljurgela]

I went through about 50 or so of mine, I found a few that I do not think that you have...

The RAIA orange back

and (maybe) a couple of color variations on Flamengo backs - I cannot really be sure given that colors are different... you be the judge....

[Collect Equity]

Originally Posted by aljurgela

I went through about 50 or so of mine, I found a few that I do not think that you have...

The RAIA orange back

and (maybe) a couple of color variations on Flamengo backs - I cannot really be sure given that colors are different... you be the judge....

That Raia Orange Back is definitely a new back variation. I will add it to the list.

The Flamingo backs I would consider lighter shades of the same variations. The green is sometimes really strong and other times lighter and I would consider the one you showed to be the same as #10 on my list. And the dark color that goes between black, grey & brown for the Flamingo back I have also been calling what I list as #7.

But I am excited to catalog the orange Raia since I have never seen one of those before.

I have a couple other questions on card backs, if anyone has any input:

1) At times I have wondered if the backs were hand stamped instead of printed. Does anyone know how to tell?

2) Does anyone know what these back specifically advertise? Candy, cigarettes, a bit of both? (or how they were distributed)

[aljurgela]

But what I am told is with candies. I have not found any references to confirm this. Surely you have seen some cars with “bands”. I believe that there was a small paper band that “bound” the card to the candy made of a more absorbent material than the card itself. Thereby the “strip” would absorb the candy and with a higher concentration of the candy material were thereby transferred to the cards. Pure conjecture, but I have a number of cards that would support this hypothesis.

[Collect Equity]

I have discovered a new back variation. It is the same black Raia back card, but it does not have a phone number. This is on the back of a Wocanin Team USA card from the set. This makes 14 different confirmed Tinghalls card backs.

Attached are images of the front and back of the card, as well as the Raia back without phone number next to one that has the phone number.

Interestingly enough, the Wocanin card was from a group of Team USA and other Tinghalls cards with black Raia backs but all of the other cards included the phone number. I have no idea why they left the phone number off the back of this one or if it's a unique anomaly. If anyone has an guesses, I am open to hear them.