The main purpose of this site is to document cards associated with Louisiana. With that in mind, I thought it would only be fitting to include some information about the "Louisiana Find".
In August of 2010 a poster with the handle GeorgeD made a post on the Full Count Forum that caught the attention of collectors everywhere:
"I have a Louis Lowdermilk Red Cross as well as 6 other Red Cross brown background cards."
Lowdermilk is already the rarest card in the T207 set, but to find one with a scarce Red Cross back would seem almost impossible. Of course everyone wanted to see scans and George was able to produce them. George went on to explain that he was 81 years old and from Baton Rouge, LA. He said that the cards had belonged to his uncle who died in 1936. George found the cards in his grandmother's attic around 1940 and later came across them in his mother's attic after she died in 1992.
There were 94 cards in the "Louisiana Find" that included: forty-six T207, all rare cards in the set, including eight with Red Cross backs; thirty T215-1 Red Cross; four T215-2 Red Cross; eleven T213-2 Coupon; and three E105 Mello Mints.
Here is one of the original scans from the Full Count Forum thread:
In August of 2010 a poster with the handle GeorgeD made a post on the Full Count Forum that caught the attention of collectors everywhere:
"I have a Louis Lowdermilk Red Cross as well as 6 other Red Cross brown background cards."
Lowdermilk is already the rarest card in the T207 set, but to find one with a scarce Red Cross back would seem almost impossible. Of course everyone wanted to see scans and George was able to produce them. George went on to explain that he was 81 years old and from Baton Rouge, LA. He said that the cards had belonged to his uncle who died in 1936. George found the cards in his grandmother's attic around 1940 and later came across them in his mother's attic after she died in 1992.
There were 94 cards in the "Louisiana Find" that included: forty-six T207, all rare cards in the set, including eight with Red Cross backs; thirty T215-1 Red Cross; four T215-2 Red Cross; eleven T213-2 Coupon; and three E105 Mello Mints.
Here is one of the original scans from the Full Count Forum thread:
Recently I was able to pick up the T213 Heinie Wagner shown in the middle of the scan above. Before these cards were auctioned off by Robert Edward Auctions in 2011 they were sent off to SGC for grading. The Heinie Wagner card now resides in an SGC 20 holder with an inscription on the flip marking it as part of the "Louisiana Find".
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