E91 American Caramel 1908-10
1908-1911 · American Caramel Company (Philadelphia, PA)
American Caramel set with subsets A, B and C.
Key Facts
- Release
- 1908–1910
- Manufacturer
- American Caramel Company (Philadelphia, PA)
- Distribution
- Inserted in 1¢ caramel candy packs across three annual series
- Card stock
- Lithographed cardstock with hand-coloring; player names but no team affiliations on the front
- Printer / Designer
- Unknown — three subsets reused the same 33 generic illustrations with different player names
- Series
- E91-A (1908) · E91-B (1909) · E91-C (1910)
- Total cards
- 99
Key Cards
Christy Mathewson (E91-A)
Matty in the 1908 issue — one of his earliest caramel-era appearances.
Walter Johnson (E91-C)
Big Train in the E91-C series — Johnson's earliest mainstream caramel issue.
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Tris Speaker (E91-C)
Speaker's debut-era caramel card — issued during his Red Sox breakthrough.
Eddie Plank (E91-A)
Plank in the 1908 issue — among the most pursued E91-A cards.
Mordecai Brown (E91-A)
Three Finger Brown at the peak of his Cubs dynasty run.
Joe Tinker (E91-A)
Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance — shortstop on the early caramel issue.
Johnny Evers (E91-A)
Cubs second baseman, mid-double-play trio.
Frank Chance (E91-A)
Peerless Leader rounding out the Cubs trio across all three caramel sets of the era.
Chief Bender (E91-A)
Connie Mack's big-game pitcher — early Athletics caramel card.
Roger Bresnahan (E91-A)
HOF catcher and player-manager during the Cardinals' rebuild years.
"Home Run" Baker (E91-B)
Baker's earliest caramel appearance — pre-nickname; he wouldn't earn it until the 1911 World Series.
John McGraw (E91-A)
Little Napoleon as Giants player-manager in the earliest of the three E91 series.