635 Frankenfield?

OK...I am pretty sure Tudor NEVER made a field that looked like this...but if someone knows that they did...let me know!

This is a 635 I got off ebay...and yes...that switch you see in the middle portion of the pic (just below NFL on the sidewall) IS a standard wall switch!

[artlax]

Looks like someone just switched out the switches!

Did Tudor really make one with the end walls with helmets and the side walls with team names?

And the inside end walls have blue but the inside side walls have maroon or dark red.

[Shabby J]

Originally Posted by SteelerFan1967

Did Tudor really make one with the end walls with helmets and the side walls with team names?

And the inside end walls have blue but the inside side walls have maroon or dark red.

It would not surpise me. I have a 510 field that has one green rail and most 510s I have seen have all white rails.

I am sure there were manufacturing variances like this.

[ChrisStacey]

SteelerFan,
I'm NO expert but I've heard stories while attending
tournaments that Tudor would,on occassion,mix different
side & end rails when they were running low/out of certain ones.
I'm sure I've seen some missed-matched boards over
the years but couldn't describe any of them.( old age)...LOL
As for that switch.That's more than likely a "home-job".
This I do know,on the original switches,the wires had to
be soldered.So if you or your dad or neighbor didn't
know how to solder you had a broken-switch.I see why
this cat used a wall-switch. ( screw-terminals) That was the
best thing they ever did with this particular switch,put
screw terminals in them so "most" folks could work with them.
Even a kid could fix it,usually.
I'm hoping Ray Fanara or Mike Pratt see your post.They are
well versed in EF boards and can answer your questions.

SEMPER FI,
Chris Stacey
Hampton,Va.

[sweetka]

Yes, that board is legitimate. I would question it too with the makeshift switch. Normally that orange color with the siderails meant Montgomery Wards exclusive as does all the orange games. They were retooled when Montgomery Ward dropped the line. The college game also used those colors which of course places the game around the early 70's. Some say, and I have yet to confirm this, that the college game was produced to eliminate the remainder of the orange stock left by the Montgomery Wards endeavor.

I don't know what you paid for that rig but if you are looking for quality on Ebay you have to be very careful. People try to unload their junk there, or resale boards after they have gotten the coveted "Wide Top" bases out of the game. That set definitely should have come with wide top bases, especially if they were mixing and matching which they clearly did in the past. Most people conceal poor boards by either, not showing the board and underside with switch outside the box. That's the first indicator of trouble.

There are many rare combinations, this being one of them. You often got these types of games shipped in the mail in a brown box to conceal the obvious. Normally, it took so long to get the game then, 4-6 weeks, that you surely didn't want to send it back.

Hope this helps.