What the heck is this card?

Dan, I've got to keep that hope alive that one of you two guys will eventually give up on the set and keep me in mind when you want to move the Bedient.

Jay

r337man wrote:I couldn't have done the avatar w/o you Ben! That J=K Wagner is as close to the T206 one that I will ever get. I have no extra J=K, I am working on the set as I acquired all of Pat Preece's in the Alpha deal. Sorry Jay, hey I think I can use that R337 you offered me, can you email me again? thanks
dan

And at least three of the ones you got from Patrick Preece used to be mine, Dano (Murray, Hofman and Criger). All of them were uncat. when I found them on eBay a couple of years back mislabeled as T206s.

Jay, I wish I could help you with the Bedient as I know you've been looking for one for a long time but I only have a single of each J=K type left. Davis (type I) and Carrigan (type II) and have never had the Bedient.

Scott M. - if I get to go to the Philly show, I would love to meet up with you and Dan in person, as I have had a terrific time dealing with you two for years now. I would also be interested in meeting any other board members and some more people I have dealt with, but never met in person.

I should be game for that.

I was contacted by an "old timer" with additional information and I would like to share it here: "I am a long-time collector who visits Network 54 occasionally and noticed your post on one of my favorite sets -- Orange-Bordered candy cards. Since I have a copy of the Niles you illustrated, I can confirm that the cardboard is consistent with other Orange-Borders in my collection and the back is the same shade of gray. Unless someone finds a complete box with Niles, we will never be sure that card was issued by the same firm, but there is sufficient evidence that that is the case. Besides the
cardboard consistency, rounded inner borders also are exhibited by Davis, Magee, McConnell and Steinfeldt in my collection and white highlights on the name are evident on Leach and Miller. Many of these cards also have a hint of background (stands, trees, buildings). The similarities between these divergent Orange-Borders to those generally accepted as part of the set are sufficient to make "same set" a logical conclusion -- size, blank back, orange borders, thin white inner border, hand-lettered name (usually last name only) and team affiliation generally accounted for only on the uniform. My guess would be a "second series" following the more common Cobbs, Wagners, Mathewsons, Planks, etc. Of course, a "knockoff" is possible, but that seems unlikely since most of the players depicted were "second tier." Why make a set of Doyles, Millers and McConnells with few ifany stars."

Thanks for the info, Dan.