Red Hindu is the 7th Scarcest T206 back, slightly more plentiful than Uzit, and slightly scarcer than Black Lenox. The Red Hindu subset is a small one, featuring only 43 known cards, although according to T206resource.com‘s checklist below, they believe that 3 additional cards should exist, which would bring the total to 46 cards.
The Red Hindu subset consists of players from three separate print groups:
- The 350-460 series (also referred to as Print Group 3)
- The 460 Only Series (also known as Print Group 4)
- The “Super Prints” (aka Print Group 5)
Interestingly, all 34 poses that exist with Broad Leaf 460 backs also exist with Red Hindu backs (with the possible exception of Mathewson Dark Cap, McIntyre Brooklyn & Chicago, and Reulbach No Glove Showing – though all three were likely printed with Red Hindu backs). You’ll notice that the Red Hindu Subset lists 46 poses.
Red Hindu shares an interesting phenomenon with the American Beauty 460 subset. Most of the poses above are extremely scarce, but 12 of them are much more common. This pattern was first written about by Ted Zanidakis who dubbed it “The Exclusive 12” in a post on net54baseball.com.
These twelve poses are significantly more plentiful than the others on the list above:
- Crandall with cap
- Devore
- Duffy
- Ford
- Gandil
- Geyer
- Hummel
- McGraw glove at hip
- Pfeffer
- Sheckard glove showing
- Tannehill on front
- Wheat
Finding one of these twelve Red Hindus is fairly easy, but if you are looking for a Red Hindu that is not a member of the “Exclusive 12” it could take years for a copy to come to market. In Part Two, I’ll use the PSA and SGC Population Reports to show the disparity between Exclusive 12 populations and the rest of the Red Hindu subset.
