There is only ONE true Red Brandywine and no strains of it.
It was explained above about the two at TGS that are not true RB and Linda also lists a Red Brandywine Landis and calls it a strain but it isn't, it's just the place where she bought seeds, the Landis Museum in PA.
I grew my first Red Branywine Red back in the early 90's when there wasn't all this confusion. Tom Hauch of Heirloom tomatoes.net ( could be .com, I can't remember)was the first to get RB out of the SSE YEarbook and offer it commercially and still calls it his signature variety.
A few years ago I asked Tom for some seeds of his RB to compare with my RB and the plants and fruits were identical.
Tom was also the one who sent seeds of RB to Steve Miller at the Landis Museum in PA and it was Steve who got the rest of the history on it.
Hope that helps and if it were me and wanted true RB, it would be either the TGS Landis, or Tom's website or Sandhill Preservation, to start with. I used to offer it in my seed offers here and there but no longer have fresh enough seed to offer.
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Carolyn
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