1911 T4 Obak Cabinet Set and Checklist

‘It’s In The Details’

Title T4 Obak Cabinet Premiums
Year 1911
Size 5″ x 7″
Images Black and White
Type Tobacco
Number in Set
175

T4 Obak Cabinet Premiums Overview

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The 1911 T4 Obak set includes 5″ x 7″ black and white baseball cabinet cards. The fronts include a player image inside of an oval while the backs are blank. Cards are scarce and not too many come up for sale at auctions or otherwise. These cards were offered as premiums as part of a redemption offer from the company where customers would mail in a designated number of coupons in exchange for a player of their choosing.

Many cards have not been physically seen/confirmed but a full checklist is available based on the coupons that first offered them.

The cabinets featured minor league players in the Pacific Coast and Northwestern Leagues. While the cabinets did not have card numbers on them, the coupon which listed the checklist added numbers because the company requested customers place their order by the number instead of the name.

While many players were inconsequential, the set includes Buck Weaver from the famous 1919 Chicago Black Sox team. His cabinet is the key to this set. The pictures from the cabinets were often the same pictures as used to create Obak’s smaller T212 tobacco cards.

T4 Obak Cabinet Premiums Checklist

Cards are presented below in order of appearance on the Obak coupon. The are arranged by team.

  1. Smith (start of Los Angeles team)
  2. Tozer
  3. Howard
  4. Daley
  5. Bernard
  6. Dillon
  7. Delmas
  8. Delhi
  9. Criger
  10. Thorsen
  11. Agnew
  12. Akin
  13. Metzger
  14. Abbott
  15. Wheeler
  16. Moore
  17. Grindle
  18. Wolverton (start of Oakland team)
  19. Mitze
  20. Ware
  21. Cutshaw
  22. Christian
  23. Wiggs
  24. Maggert
  25. Pfyl
  26. Pearce
  27. Hetling
  28. Hoffman
  29. Pernoll
  30. Coy
  31. Tiedeman
  32. Knight
  33. Flater
  34. Zacher
  35. Ables
  36. Miller
  37. Ryan (start of Portland team)
  38. Rapps
  39. McCredie
  40. Seaton
  41. Steen
  42. Chadbourne
  43. Krueger
  44. Sheehan
  45. Peckinpaugh
  46. Rodgers
  47. Murray
  48. Fullerton
  49. Kuhn
  50. Koestner
  51. Henderson
  52. Barry
  53. LaLonge (start of Sacramento team)
  54. Heister
  55. Hunt
  56. Van Buren
  57. Fitzgerald
  58. Danzig
  59. Baum
  60. Shinn
  61. Nourse
  62. O’Rourke
  63. Lerchen
  64. Thornton
  65. Thomas
  66. Thompson
  67. Byram
  68. Arrelanes
  69. Mahoney
  70. McArdle (start of San Francisco team)
  71. Melchoir
  72. Vitt
  73. Henley
  74. Berry
  75. Miller
  76. Tennant
  77. Mohler
  78. Shaw
  79. Sutor
  80. Browning
  81. Ryan
  82. Powell
  83. Schmidt
  84. Meikle
  85. Madden
  86. Weaver (Buck)
  87. Moskiman
  88. Zamlock
  89. Brown (start of Vernon team)
  90. Hogan
  91. Brashear
  92. Carlisle
  93. Burrell
  94. Brackenridge
  95. Hitt
  96. Willett
  97. Stewart
  98. Carson
  99. Raleigh
  100. Patterson
  101. Hosp
  102. Sheehan
  103. Castleton
  104. Ross
  105. Stinson
  106. McDonnell
  107. Kane
  108. Harris (start of Portland team)
  109. Garrett
  110. Stovall
  111. Mundorff
  112. Lamline
  113. Bloomfield
  114. Williams
  115. Mensor
  116. Casey
  117. Speas
  118. Netzel (start of Spokane team)
  119. Strand
  120. Hasty
  121. Zimmerman
  122. Cooney
  123. Frisk
  124. Nordyke
  125. Kippert
  126. Bonner
  127. Ostdiek
  128. Cartwright
  129. Holm
  130. Higgins (start of Tacoma team)
  131. Warren
  132. Morse
  133. Burns
  134. Gordon
  135. Bassey
  136. Rockenfield
  137. Coleman
  138. Schmutz
  139. Hall
  140. Annis
  141. Engel (start of Vancouver team)
  142. Brashear
  143. Adams
  144. Spiesman
  145. Brinker
  146. Bennett
  147. James
  148. Lewis
  149. Scharnweber
  150. Swain
  151. Jensen
  152. Erickson
  153. Roche (start of Victoria team)
  154. Davis
  155. Goodman
  156. Ward
  157. Reddick
  158. Householder
  159. Dashwood
  160. Starkel
  161. Thomas
  162. Ten Million
  163. Raymer
  164. Bues (start of Seattle team)
  165. Crukshank
  166. Kading
  167. Spencer
  168. Leard
  169. Seaton
  170. Shea
  171. Butler
  172. Skeels
  173. Weed
  174. Raymond
  175. Zackert

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