T214 Victory tobacco

PictureT214 back
The T214 Victory set is another one that gets confused with the much more famous T206 set due to a similar design and even the same photos. However, they are considerably harder to find and therefore several times more valuable. In fact, they're so tough some collectors aren't convinced that all the cards have been found yet.

Like other card sets that appeared in the early 1900's, the set features a lithograph of a player with a white border. Below the photo are a last name and a team city and league, if necessary. Unlike T206 cards, the ink used for the text is blue. On the back is an advertisement for Victory tobacco, with a notation that there are 90 total cards in the set. That number has not yet been confirmed, as there are currently 66 known cards in the set. In 1990, the number of known cards was 30. There is still the possibility that more cards can be discovered.

Victory cigarettes were produced by the W. R. Irby branch of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company in 1915. L&M was acquired by the American Tobacco Company in 1899 and was later reborn as an independent company after the dissolution of ATC in 1912. For information regarding the W. R. Irby branch of Liggett & Myers, see the bottom of the T211 Red Sun page.

Like other "white border" sets, T214's were probably printed by American Lithographic Company in New York.
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T214 fronts (blue text)

set checklist

While the back of the T214 clearly states "90 Designs" as of today only the following 66 cards have been confirmed.
  • Ames (Cinci)
  • Bender (Baltimore Fed., trees)
  • Bender (Baltimore Fed., no trees) - new 2016*
  • Bresnahan (Chicago Nat'l.)
  • Bridwell (St Louis Fed.)
  • Camnitz (Pittsburgh Fed.)
  • Chase (portrait, Buffalo Fed.)
  • Chase (throwing, Buffalo Fed.)
  • Cobb (Detroit, red portrait)
  • Crandall (St Louis Fed.)
  • Cree (New York Amer.)
  • Demmitt (Chicago Amer.)
  • Devore (Chillicothe)
  • Donlin (bat .300)
  • Doolan (Baltimore Fed.)
  • Downey (Buffalo Fed.)
  • Larry Doyle (New York Nat'l.)
  • Elberfeld (Brooklyn)
  • Evers (Boston Nat'l.)
  • Ford (Buffalo Fed.)
  • Fromme (New York Nat'l.)
  • Gandil (Washington)
  • Geyer (St Louis Nat'l.)
  • Griffith (Washington)
  • Groom (St Louis Nat'l.)
  • Herzog (Cinci)
  • Jennings (Detroit, one hand)
  • Jennings (Detroit, two hands)
  • Johnson (Washington, pitching)
  • Kelley (New York Amer.)
  • Konetchy (Pittsburgh Fed.)
  • Lajoie (Philadelphia Amer.)
  • Lennox (Pittsburgh Fed.)
  • Magee (Boston Nat'l.)
  • Marquard (New York Nat'l.)
  • McGraw (New York Nat'l.)
  • McLean (New York Nat'l.)
  • McQuillan (Pittsburgh Nat'l.)
  • Meyers (portrait, New York Nat'l.)
  • Meyers (fielding, New York Nat'l.)
  • Meyers (catching, New York Nat'l.)
  • Miller (St. Louis Nat.) - new 2016*
  • Mullin (Newark Fed.)
  • Murray (New York Nat'l.)
  • Needham (Chicago Nat'l.)
  • Oakes (Pittsburgh Fed.)
  • Oldring (Phila. Amer.) - new 2016*
  • Paskert (Philadelphia Nat'l.)
  • Quinn (Baltimore Fed.)
  • Rucker (Brooklyn)
  • Schaefer (K. C. Fed.)
  • Schulte (Chicago Nat'l.)
  • F. Smith (Baltimore Fed.)
  • Speaker (Boston Amer.)
  • Stovall (K. C. Fed.)
  • Summers
  • Bill Sweeney (Chicago Nat'l.)
  • Jeff Sweeney (New York Amer.)
  • Thomas (Philadelphia Amer.)
  • Tinker (bat off, Chicago Fed.)
  • Tinker (bat on, Chicago Fed.)
  • Heine Wagner (bat on right)
  • Jack Warhop (New York Amer.) - new 2016*
  • Wheat (Brooklyn)
  • Wilhelm (batting, Brooklyn)
  • Wiltse (Jersey City)
* April 2016 - Previously uncataloged Bender (no trees), Miller, Oldring, and Warhop showed up in REA auction

see bottom of t211 red sun page for information on 
w. r. irby branch of liggett & myers tobacco co.