Wednesday, July 29, 2009

1909-11 T206 Chicago Cubs

These cards are unnumbered and measure 1-7/16 x 2-5/8 . The T206 is the largest and most popular MLB set of it's time with 525 different card fronts which 36 are cubbies. These cards have color lithograph images of players with a white border. The players name and team are printed along the bottom margin in brown ink. There are sixteen different American Tobacco Co. brands used in ads on the backs of these cards with Piedmont and Sweet Caporal are the most common.

American Beauty - more thinly cut than other brands due to the narrower size of the cigarette packs
Broadleaf
Carolina Brights
Cycle
Drum
El Principe De Gales
Hindu - Found in both brown ink and red ink (rare)
Lenox - Found in both brown ink and black ink
Old Mill
Piedmont
Polar Bear - Only brand that is not cigarettes; Polar Bear was loose tobacco, also known as scrap tobacco
Sovereign
Sweet Caporal
Tolstoi
Ty Cobb
Uzit
How To Spot Counterfeit T206 Baseball Cards

The way you can tell the difference between a fake T206 card and a real one is as follows:

1) Fake T206 card have the same size team and player names on them. Real T206 cards have the players name as larger print then the team name printed on the card.

You should bye authenticated cards from the following: BVG, PSA, GAI or SGC

Player
Mordecai Brown Portrait
Mordecai Brown CUBS Shirt
Mordecai Brown CHICAGO Shirt
George Browne
Frank Chance Batting
Frank Chance Red Portrait
Frank Chance Yellow Portrait
Johnny Evers Batting with Yellow Background
Johnny Evers Portrait
Johnny Evers Batting with Blue Background
Solly Hofman
Del Howard
Johnny Kling
Rube Kroh
Carl Lundren
Pat Moran
Thomas Needham
Orval Overall Portrait
Orval Overall Hands at waist level
Orval Overall Hands at face level
Jeff Pfeffer
John Pfiester Portrait
John Pfiester Pitching
Ed Reulbach Portrait
Ed Reulbach Pitching
Frank Schulte Batting back
Frank Schulte Batting front
James Sheckard Throwing
James Sheckard Portrait
Harry Steinfeldt Portrait
Harry Steinfeldt Batting
Joe Tinker Portrait
Joe Tinker Bat off Sholulder
Joe Tinker Hands on knee
Joe Tinker Bat on Shoulder
Heinie Zimmerman


Mordecai Brown-Portrait


Mordecai Brown-CHICAGO Shirt


Mordecai Brown-CUBS Shirt


George Browne


Frank Chance-Red Portrait


Frank Chance-Yellow Portrait


Frank Chance-Batting


Johnny Evers-Portrait


Johnny Evers-Batting with Yellow Background


Johnny Evers-Batting with Blue Background


Solly Hofman


Del Howard


Johnny Kling


Rube Kroh


Carl Lundren


Pat Moran


Thomas Needham


Orval Overall-Portrait


Orval Overall-Hands at face level



Orval Overall-Hands at waist level


Francis Pfeffer


Jack Pfiester-Portrait


Jack Pfiester-Pitching


Ed Reulbach-Portrait


Ed Reulbach-Pitching


Frank Schulte-Batting back


Frank Schulte-Batting front


James Sheckard-Portrait


James Sheckard-Throwing


Harry Steinfeldt-Portrait


Harry Steinfeldt-Batting


Joe Tinker-Portrait


Joe Tinker-Hands on knee


Joe Tinker-Bat off Sholulder


Joe Tinker-Bat on Shoulder


Heinie Zimmerman

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Monday, July 27, 2009

1911 T205 Chicago Cubs

Number of Cards

208 cards in the 1911-T205 Gold Borders which there are 19 Cubs and many differt American Tobacco backs.

Size of Cards

These cards are unnumbered and measure 1-7/16 x 2-5/8 inches. The cards feature a player image surrounded by gold borders.

Basic Features

The front of this card features a portrait of the player along with a replica autograph underneath, while the team logo and name are displayed prominently at the top. The back provides a summary of player statistics and includes an advertisement for a cigarette brand. Common brands featured are Piedmont and Sweet Corporal, whereas rarer ones include Drum and Hinu. Additional brands present are Polar Bear, American Beauty, Broadleaf, Cycle, and Sovereign. See the checklist below.

Very little about card backs are ever discussed, but the reverse side can be very interesting. Cigarette brands of this set include

Rarest:
Drum
Hindu

Next toughest:
Broadleaf

Tough:
Cyle
American Beauty

Common:
Sovereign
Hassan
Polar Bear
Honest Long Cut

Most common:
Piedmont
Sweet Caporal

Chicago Cubs 1911 T205 Gold Borders Checklist


Player
Jimmy Archer
Mordecai Brown
Frank Chance
John Evers
William Foxen
George Graham
John Kling
Floyd Kroh
Harry McIntyre
Tom Needham
Orval Overall
John Pfeister
Ed Reulbach
Lewis Richie
Frank Schulte
David Shean
Jimmy Sheckard
Harry Steinfeldt
Joe Tinker