1922 E120 American Caramel Set and Checklist

‘It’s In The Details’
Title | E120 American Caramel |
Year | 1922 |
Size | 2″ x 3 1/4″ |
Images | Color Tints |
Type | Candy/Caramel |
Number in Set |
240 |
E120 American Caramel Overview
The 1922 E120 American Caramel set is one of the more iconic candy card issues for a variety of reasons. The set not only boasts numerous stars but most of the cards in the set are quite affordable.
Fronts include tinted images with the player’s name, position, and team. The player images are inside of a decorative, oval-shaped frame. Backs include that player’s team checklist. One unique aspect of the set is that each team has its own frame design.
The cards are found with both green and beige/tan tints. American Leaguers had beige/tan cards while green was used for the National League. The green is light and can be mistaken for purely a black and white card with a quick glance.
At 2″ x 3 1/4″, the cards are significantly larger than most of the earlier candy issues that preceded it. Featuring 240 cards in the set, it is a massive release. It is, in fact, the largest E-Card set produced.
The set features one of the more egregious spelling errors you’ll see on a pre-war card in that Ty Cobb’s last name was spelled ‘Cob.
Albums … and Back Damage
One very notable thing with this set is that it is common to find them with back damage. Many of these have significant paper loss on the reverse and there is a good reason for that.
American Caramel actually created albums for these cards so that collectors could keep their collections in them. Unfortunately, like most albums of the day, that meant gluing the cards directly onto the pages.
In the years to follow, collectors began removing these cards from the album pages (or other scrapbook pages also used to keep cards). In doing so, they left parts of the cards on the pages and backs of the cards suffered from paper loss, which has obviously hurt the value.
The albums were relatively inexpensive with pages consisting of only basic black construction paper. They are seen today and usually sell for around $50-$100.
E120 American Caramel Parallels
While these were American Caramel cards, this set was also used for other purposes.
First, a blank-backed strip card version exists as well with the W573 cards. These cards are the same but are done in black and white and have blank backs. It should be noted that while the majority of blank-backed E120 cards are W573s, that is not always the case. An unknown issue of sorts exists with blank-backed sepia tone cards. These are generally sold as E120s but do not have the checklists and it is not really known what they are. That only goes for sepia-tone cards – black and white cards with blank backs are W573s.
Along those lines, companies were known to use those W573 cards for their own purposes. In particular, the W573 Cream Nut and Goodie Bread cards had an advertisement on the backs for their products.
Finally, another E120 American Caramel-like set was produced as part of a promotion with the 1922 Olsen’s Baseball Game. Those cards were available as a special promotion from the game company and used the same design and images as the E120s. However, only 120 cards were included in that offering so they used a shortened version of the checklist. Because of the shorter checklist, there is still some uncertainty about exactly what those cards are.
E120 American Caramel Checklist
- Babe Adams
- Eddie Ainsmith
- Vic Aldridge
- Grover Alexander
- Jim Bagby
- Home Run Baker
- Dave Bancroft
- Walt Barbare
- Turner Barber
- Jesse Barnes
- Clyde Barnhart
- John Bassler
- Will Bayne
- Walter Betts
- Carson Bigbee
- Lu Blue
- Norman Boeckel
- Sammy Bohne
- George Burns
- George Burns
- Joe Bush
- Leon Cadore
- Marty Callaghan
- Frank Calloway
- Max Carey
- Jimmy Caveney
- Virgil Cheeves
- Vern Clemons
- Ty Cobb
- Bert Cole
- Eddie Collins
- Shano Collins
- Pat Collins
- Wilbur Cooper
- Harry Courtney
- Stan Coveleski
- Elmer Cox
- Sam Crane
- Walton Cruise
- Bill Cunningham
- George Cutshaw
- Dave Danforth
- Jake Daubert
- George Dauss
- Frank Davis
- Hank DeBerry
- Al Devormer
- Bill Doak
- Pete Donohue
- Phil Douglas
- Joe Dugan
- Louis Duncan
- Jimmy Dykes
- Howard Ehmke
- Frank Ellerbe
- Red Faber
- Bib Falk
- Dana Fillingim
- Max Flack
- Ira Flagstead
- Art Fletcher
- Horace Ford
- Jack Fournier
- Frankie Frisch
- Ollie Fuhrman
- Clarence Galloway
- Larry Gardner
- Walter Gerber
- Ed Gharrity
- John Gillespie
- Whitey Glazner
- Johnny Gooch
- Goose Goslin
- Hank Gowdy
- John Graney
- Tom Griffith
- Burleigh Grimes
- Oscar Ray Grimes
- Charlie Grimm
- Heinie Groh
- Jesse Haines
- Earl Hamilton
- Bubbles Hargrave
- Bryan Harris
- Joe Harris
- Stanley Harris
- Charles Hartnett
- Bob Hasty
- Joe Hauser
- Cliff Heathcote
- Harry Heilmann
- Walter Henline
- Clarence Hodge
- Walter Holke
- Charlie Hollocher
- Harry Hooper
- Rogers Hornsby
- Waite Hoyt
- Wilbur Hubbell
- Bernard Hungling
- Will Jacobson
- Charlie Jamieson
- Ernie Johnson
- Sylvester Johnson
- Walter Johnson
- Jimmy Johnston
- W.R. Johnston
- Bob Jones
- Sam Jones
- Percy Jones
- Joe Judge
- Ben Karr
- Johnny Kelleher
- George Kelly
- Lee King
- Larry Kopff
- Marty Krug
- Johnny Lavan
- Nemo Leibold
- Roy Leslie
- George Leverette
- Dolph Luque
- Walter Mails
- Al Mamaux
- Rabbit Maranville
- Cliff Markle
- Rube Marquard
- Carl Mays
- Harvey McClellan
- Austin McHenry
- Stuffy McInnis
- Marty McManus
- Mike McNally
- Hugh McQuillan
- Lee Meadows
- Mike Menosky
- Dutch Meusel
- Emil Meusel
- Clyde Milan
- Bing Miller
- Elmer Miller
- Lawrence Miller
- Clarence Mitchell
- George Mogridge
- John Mokan
- Roy Moore
- John Morrison
- Johnny Mostil
- Elmer Myers
- Hy Myers
- Rollene Naylor
- Earl Neale
- Art Nehf
- Les Nunamaker
- Joe Oeschger
- Bob O’Farrell
- Ivan Olson
- George O’Neil
- Steve O’Neill
- Frank Parkinson
- Roger Peckingpaugh
- Herb Pennock
- Ralph Perkins
- Will Pertica
- Jack Peters
- Tom Phillips
- Val Picinich
- Herman Pillette
- Ralph Pinelli
- Wally Pipp
- Clark Pittenger
- Raymond Powell
- Derrill Pratt
- Jack Quinn
- Joe Rapp
- John Rawlings
- Dutch Reuther
- Sam Rice
- Emory Rigney
- Jimmy Ring
- Eppa Rixey
- Charles Robertson
- Ed Rommel
- Edd Roush
- Muddy Ruel
- Babe Ruth
- Ray Schalk
- Wally Schang
- Ray Schmandt
- Walter Schmidt
- Joe Schultz
- Everett Scott
- Henry Severeid
- Joe Sewell
- Howard Shanks
- Bob Shawkey
- Earl Sheely
- Will Sherdel
- Ralph Shinneres
- Urban Shocker
- Chick Shorten
- George Sisler
- Earl Smith
- Earl Smith
- Elmer Smith
- Jack Smith
- Sherrod Smith
- Colonel Snover
- Frank Snyder
- Al Sothoron
- Billy Southworth
- Tris Speaker
- Arnold Statz
- Milton Stock
- Amos Strunk
- Jim Tierney
- John Tobin
- Fred Toney
- George Toporcer
- Pie Traynor
- George Uhle
- Elam Vanglider
- Bob Veach
- Tillie Walker
- Curtis Walker
- Al Walters
- Bill Wambsganss
- Aaron Ward
- John Watson
- Frank Welch
- Zack Wheat
- Fred Williams
- Kenneth Williams
- Ivy Wingo
- Smoky Joe Wood
- Lawrence Woodall
- Russell Wrightstone
- Everett Yaryan
- Ross Youngs
- J.T. Zachary
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