Most Coveted Type Card?

What's your most coveted prewar type card?

For me, it's a close call between a Cullivan's Fireside and a '12 Boston Garter (yeah right!)

If I were to make a more realistic goal, it would be a T4 Obak Cabinet.

And you

One, make that two, that realistically I could own one day:

1. Texas Tommy Type I HOF'er
2. J=K (cut-out head) HOF'er

I did cross a difficult type off my list when I purchased a JuJu drum of Bush earlier this year.



Mike

Ben probably hit the top 2. Since I've already owned some Firesides before, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a 1912 Boston Garter since I've never owned one.

Jay

I can't get away from this. Julie recommended it to me when I was wanting an O'Neil but at first I thought that it was too pretty, and a bit pricey. Well it is a little of both. But not too much, and blends well with my other card choices. Afterall, he did have a heckofa season, and it is both a bit of eye candy and a subject matter when entertaining one of the (imaginary) young baseball card groupies.
This one is not the example which I own, that scan is AWOL, and only a little worse condition than the one shown.

T231 Fans Cigarettes

t210 jax...unrealistic there.

an e92 cobb would be sweet, and obtainable(?)

i'm not a big fan of 1/1 super scarce type card that doesn't belong to any particular set that was discovered out of the blue and no one knows how it was distributed or who the maker was...

cccc wrote:i'm not a big fan of 1/1 super scarce type card that doesn't belong to any particular set that was discovered out of the blue and no one knows how it was distributed or who the maker was...

I'm with you on that one Quan. It's an interesting card (T231) but I'd need to know more about the set/distributer before hailing it the king of all type cards.

I'm with you guys, the Fans Cig card is a bit nebulous. I know that Zach has said he knows of more than one Fans card out there, not including the mythical xerox copy. Until more is known about them I really can't put the card in the pantheon of great type cards.

Jay

I think the question was: "What's your most coveted prewar type card?", not what is the greatest, most impressive, whatever type card. Didn't mean to cause a fuss with my answer, that's just the one I'd like to have the most. Next would be other ACC types I'm missing, like N370 Lone Jack and M117 Sporting Times. As for a more striking type, I'd go with an N142 Duke Cabinet.

TY COBB IS A MERCHANT.; Tigers' Outfielder Buys Share In Detroit Sporting Goods House.
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DETROIT, Mich., June 8. -- Ty Cobb, the Tigers' noted outfielder, to-day entered business on a large scale, purchasing a block of stock in the W.B. Jarvis Company, a $300,000 corporation with stores in Detroit and Grand Rapids doing a wholesale and retail sporting goods business.



- Bill Burgess

glenv wrote:I think the question was: "What's your most coveted prewar type card?", not what is the greatest, most impressive, whatever type card. Didn't mean to cause a fuss with my answer, that's just the one I'd like to have the most. Next would be other ACC types I'm missing, like N370 Lone Jack and M117 Sporting Times. As for a more striking type, I'd go with an N142 Duke Cabinet.

Hey Glen, no fuss. T231 is a bit of an enigma, and a topic of conversation that usually inspires some differing opinions among type collectors. Maybe someday more info will come out about it that could lead to a clearer explanation of its manufacturer. Either way, there's certainly nothing wrong with it being your most coveted type card. Now good luck finding one

All - about a year ago, I was speaking with Jim Shaw, a well respected cigarette pack collector. During our conversation, I brought up the elusive Fans cigarette card. To my surprise, Jim informed me that he recalled having seen a cigarette pack for Fans cigarettes at one time and though it was even baseball themed. After a few weeks of searching, Jim located where he saw the pack - it was in the April 1984 issue of Brandstand (a magazine for cigarette collectors). The pack is a slide and shell pack but the inner slide was missing and the outer shell was folded flat (this is VERY common to do). So, the section that reads "10 FANS 10" is actually the side of the pack.

So, we know there was a Fans Cigarettes - very possible the card was distributed with the pack. We also know the maker was Tobacco Products Corporation. From research, I also know that stockholders of the Tobacco Products Corporation ratified a plan to merge with the United Retail Stores Coporation, which by stock ownership controls the United Cigar Stores Company in 1922. Lastly, in 1922, Tobacco Products Corporation also put out a movie star set with their "Strollers Cigarettes" which has the designation T85.

Well, here is the scan (which can also be found on my website):



Unfortunately, this is just a scan of the 1984 b&w image. I do not have a color copy of the pack...

Very cool. Thanks for the info.

Jay