1905-30 Sports and Pastimes Set and Checklist

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	Sports and Pastimes
Year	1905-30
Size	1 3/8″ x 2 5/8″
Images	Color
Type	Bakery, Candy/Caramel, Miscellaneous, Tobacco
Number in Set	25

1905-26 Sports and Pastimes Set Overview

Sports and Pastimes Golf This interesting set was so popular that it was released again and again. Technically, this is one of the longest-running sets if you avoid the gaps in the years. In all, it seems to have been printed many times over a period of at least 25 years.

Named the Sports and Pastimes set, the cards were distributed by many different tobacco companies spanning from 1905 through 1930. I have tracked the following different brands that the cards were distributed with:

Almond’s Bread (Bakery)
1926 Bucktrout Cigarettes
1910 Dolphin Soap / Evershed (Miscellaneous Type)
1910 Edmondson’s Chocolates (Candy/Caramel Type)
1925 Hudden & Company
1925 Miranda Cigarettes
1905 Redford
1924 Sandorides
1912 Taddy & Company
1925 Teofani
1923 T.H. Collins
1925 T. P. & R. Goodbody
1930 W. Sword & Company (Unknown Type)

In addition to these brands, a set of blank-backed cards was also printed with no sponsor name on them. While most of these brands were tobacco companies, a few were not. Those companies are denoted above.

Sports is kind of a relative term here. To be fair, the set is called Sports and Pastimes. But there aren’t many sports cards here that will excite most American collectors. Golf is the lone example of a sport cataloged on this site and the rest are more minor, such as skating and lacrosse.

The cards feature color images of sports and activities and have a caption and the Sports & Pastimes name on the front. Some backs have a biography of the activity on the front, although others have a full advertisement for the sponsor’s product. The pictures and checklist remained the same among all companies using these cards.

A big theme in the set is hunting. 13 of the 25 cards included are dedicated to hunting and fishing.