1910 Mello-Mint Set (E105)

‘It’s In The Details’
Title | E105 Mello Mint |
Year | 1910 |
Size | 1 1/2″ x 2 5/8″ |
Images | Color |
Type | Candy/Caramel |
Number in Set |
50 |
E105 Mello-Mint Overview
The 1910 E105 Mello-Mint set is one of the tougher E-card sets to acquire.
Fronts include color pictures with the player’s name and team. The back has a descriptive ad for Mello-Mint, a gum company. Backs are printed in green ink and state how the cards were distributed:
“This picture is one of the series of 50 base ball players, one of which is wrapped with each five cent package of Smith’s Mello Mint Gum, manufactured only by Texas Gum Company, Inc., Temple, Texas.”
That advertisement is unique not so much for its content but its layout. Despite the cards being mostly vertical on the front, the advertisement on the back was printed horizontally. One of the more notable features of this set is that the cards are printed on thinner card stock than most other series’. That thin stock makes it incredibly difficult to find these cards in great condition.
Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Cy Young, and Christy Mathewson lead the way in this rare set. in addition, the same pictures and players are also found in the E92 and E101 issues. But while the subjects are the same, the Mello Mint cards are undoubtedly much tougher to find. To date, PSA and SGC have combined to grade only a little more than 500 in all.
About Mello-Mint Gum
Mello-Mint was a brand of the Texas Gum Company. The company also produced other gum brands, including Tickle Chickle, Peerless Chips, and Domino. Often, the company would reference these brands in their advertisements.
Those advertisements described Mello-Mint gum as the perfect combination of mint and spearmint. Ads also described the gum as being all over the State of Texas. And as you might guess from the maker’s name and the advertising, the gum was produced in that state.
E105 Mello-Mint Checklist
Here is a full checklist of the entire set. The checklist is the same as the E101 Anonymous Set of 50.
- Jack Barry
- Harry Bemis
- Chief Bender – striped hat
- Chief Bender – white hat
- Bill Bergen
- Bob Bescher
- Al Bridwell
- Doc Casey
- Frank Chance
- Hal Chase
- Ty Cobb
- Eddie Collins
- Sam Crawford
- Harry Davis
- Art Devlin
- Bill Donovan
- Red Dooin
- Mickey Doolan
- Patsy Dougherty
- Larry Doyle – batting
- Larry Doyle – fielding
- Johnny Evers
- George Gibson
- Topsy Hartsel
- Fred Jacklitsch
- Hughie Jennings
- Red Kleinow
- Otto Knabe
- Jack Knight
- Nap Lajoie
- Hans Lobert
- Sherry Magee
- Christy Mathewson
- John McGraw
- Larry McLean
- Dots Miller – batting
- Dots Miller – fielding
- Dan Murphy
- Bill O’Hara
- Germany Schaefer
- Admiral Schlei
- Boss Schmidt
- Johnny Seigle
- Dave Shean
- Boss Schmidt (Smith on card)
- Joe Tinker
- Honus Wagner – batting
- Honus Wagner – fielding
- Cy Young
- Heinie Zimmerman
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