The elusive one-loss error card of Christy Mathewson is a special one in the T205 baseball card set

The elusive one-loss error card of Christy Mathewson is a special one in the T205 baseball card set
Read more »Reviewing the little-known 1930 Milton Bradley Aviation set
Read more »The Obscure Card of the Month is a rare bakery card of the legendary Babe Ruth
Read more »A find of rare Baines Shield print error sheets have been found in the UK
Read more »The famous black-bordered set features what are believed to be the first lacrosse cards of real players
Read more »In 1955, Bowman alluded to a pre-war set of baseball cards that collectors aren’t even familiar with
Read more »The famous silent film star Charlie Chaplin has an early appearance in a WWI-era set of playing cards
Read more »The Obscure Card of the Month is a rare early baseball card distributed by a coffee manufacturer
Read more »Here are my top five pre-war collecting pickups from 2022
Read more »Continuing the 2022 recap, here’s Part II of III of my favorite pre-war card finds of the year
Read more »The elusive one-loss error card of Christy Mathewson is a special one in the T205 baseball card set
Reviewing the little-known 1930 Milton Bradley Aviation set
The Obscure Card of the Month is a rare bakery card of the legendary Babe Ruth
A find of rare Baines Shield print error sheets have been found in the UK
The famous black-bordered set features what are believed to be the first lacrosse cards of real players
In 1955, Bowman alluded to a pre-war set of baseball cards that collectors aren’t even familiar with
The famous silent film star Charlie Chaplin has an early appearance in a WWI-era set of playing cards
The Obscure Card of the Month is a rare early baseball card distributed by a coffee manufacturer
Here are my top five pre-war collecting pickups from 2022
Continuing the 2022 recap, here’s Part II of III of my favorite pre-war card finds of the year
Taking a look back at my favorite pickups of 2022 — here are the honorable mentions
The Statue of Liberty is the key in the American Tobacco Company’s Lighthouses series
A new Spanish variation of the well-known Games and Sports in Many Lands set is found in the UK
The Obscure Card of the Month is a 1920s boxing card of the legendary Jack Johnson
Here’s a look at some of my recent pickups
A typo is the reason Hank Greenberg has two cards in the 1934-36 Diamond Stars set
Only a handful of these rare 19th century baseball ticket cards are known to exist
Two recent eBay Authenticity Guarantee purchases had significantly different results
The Obscure Card of the Month is an international Babe Ruth card
A strange print defect on a T206 card seems to hint at the future of the Athletics
Here’s a look at some of my recent pickups from the past two months
A 1904 baseball game card set is home to arguably the least expensive cards of Honus Wagner from during his career
The Stevens-Davis Men of America booklets have numerous color variations
The Obscure Card of the Month is a 19th century baseball card
The 1908-09 Ogden’s Pugilists/Wrestlers set and the 1915 Ogden’s Boxers set are similar enough to confuse many collectors — but which one is better?
Andy Pafko’s Salutation Exhibit cards are among the many interesting variations in the popular series
Hall of Famer Rube Marquard has several print errors in the T206 set — and they’re hardly ever mentioned
A pair of postcards documented a cross country trip for the 1910 Chicago White Sox
Bobby Jones’ most affordable tobacco card is hidden in plain view
Here’s a look at some of the interesting pickups from the last month
The Obscure Card of the Month is a sports card of an early lacrosse player
Here’s a look at some of my card pickups from last month
This Ogden’s cigarette card sought to prove smoking was harmless, even to children
The height of the former boxing champion’s popularity coincided with the rise of tobacco cards in Germany
Boxing subjects lead the way in the popular T218 Champions set
Jesse Owens and his seven cards are the highlight of this German tobacco set
Follow-up sports card series’ were often not printed with the same intensity as the inaugural sets
A trio of sports cards are buried in this mostly non-sports set
Behold! The unexpected T205 tribute card of journeyman infielder Ed Abbaticchio
Ed Abbaticchio is found on two cards in the massive baseball set
A recently-acquired Winston Churchill strip card showed up in the mail and I’ve got questions
The Obscure Cards of the Month are a pair of Wheaties baseball cards from the 1930s
Here’s a look at some of my most recent pickups from last month
While Christy Mathewson is the highlight on the 1905 New York Giants Scorecard postcard, others add to its desirability
The rare 1910 Godfrey Phillips Sporting Series set is significantly more valuable than its more popular parallel 1923 set.
This month’s obscure card is an early tobacco release for famed aviators Orville and Wilbur Wright
A massive haul of the 19th century N245 Sweet Caporal Actors and Actresses cards has me looking deeper into the set
Few know that the long-time set of supposedly generic players in the PC792 postcards set actually depict real major leaguers
Want to see what I managed to find at the annual show? Here’s a recap.
A trio of rare Kashin overprints surfaces
Two uncatalogued sets of sports transfers hail from Germany — and include baseball
Two baseball cards highlight a largely unknown set, presumably from the 1800s
Here’s a look at some of my more interesting card pickups from March and April
A rare boxing rookie card checks in as this month’s obscurity
Hidden in the Goudey Sport Kings set is a father/son cycling duo
The Pre-War Cards website will soon include set reviews for popular non-sport releases
The Goudey Sport Kings cards were printed over two years — and that provides us with some interesting thoughts
Here’s a look at some of my more unique pickups from last month
One of Joe Louis’ hottest cards is graded as a 1935 rookie issue — but it was actually printed after that
The set of Shirley President Suspenders store display advertising cards features women in sports
Let’s take a look at a ‘short’ variation in the T68 Heroes/Men of History set
A dozen elusive “Chuck Klein Says” cards are highlights of the 1934 Goudey set
A rare card of the Babe is the Obscure Card of the Month
Here’s a look at some of my more notable pickups from January
A rare advertising booklet featuring Hall of Famer Dizzy Dean is not easy to find
The Obscure Card of the Month is a 19th century tobacco card from a rare gymnastics set
Looking to buy 19th century trade cards? Here are some things to keep in mind.
A recent purchase had me looking back into an uncatalogued issue
eBay has a new authentication program for ungraded sports cards. That sounds like a great idea but here are some legitimate points of concern.
While sports cards were issued starting around the 1860s, most collectors didn’t start buying and selling them until much later
A unique supplement features the two legends before they became all-time greats and predates their 1936 ‘sophomore’ issues
The first American Card Catalog briefly discussed the topic of soaking cards
The rookie card of Black Sox ‘middleman’ Chick Gandil is the key to American Caramel’s E90-3 release
Last month saw me complete three sets, start a couple more, and add a few unique singles
The Clarke brothers, Fred and Josh, both had typos on some famous pre-war baseball cards
You can point to one post-war card in particular and see that there’s plenty of room for even more growth in the pre-war marketplace
On a spur of the moment purchase, I opened two boxes of modern baseball cards. It went as bad as I expected.
In 1981, a hobby shop issued what are believed to be planned additions to the popular 1930s Diamond Stars set
Boxing legend James Corbett is found in the unlikeliest of tobacco card sets
Some have questioned Carl Hubbell’s inclusion as one of three baseball players in the 1933 Goudey Sport Kings set — but he was well deserving
The documented ‘rookie cards’ of Shirley Temple date to 1934 and were printed outside of the U.S.
The Obscure Card of the Month is a Rare Hockey Card
Here’s Part 2 of my 2021 recap of my favorite card pickups.
While I don’t have 2022 collecting goals, I do have a solid idea of what I’ll be chasing this year
Here’s a look at Part 1 of my favorite card pickups from 2021
Santa Claus is featured on numerous cards from the 19th century
There’s a common flaw on international cigarette cards and it often goes unnoticed
Kenesaw Mountain Landis has a single pre-war cataloged issue making it a rookie card to many collectors
The massive N245 Kinney Sweet Caporal Actors and Actresses cards are some of the least expensive from the 19th century
Here’s a look at my most interesting pickups from last month
This unique postcard combined football with politics, featuring president FDR
Here’s a look back at the mysterious origins of those 1927 Rinkeydink Baseball Stamps
A rare 19th century baseball trade card for S.B. Kitchel’s famous liniment surfaces
This 19th century trade card of famous scientist Thomas Edison might be his first card. If nothing else, it comes with plenty of controversy.
The Obscure Card of the Month is one of the earliest basketball cards ever produced
The earliest cards of the legendary Jesse Owens are rising in value
While the Wills Sports of All Nations set includes generic subjects, at least one looks like famous cricketer W.G. Grace
Here’s a look at some of my more interesting pickups from last month
Hal Chase has three cards in the T205 set — here’s a look at all of them, including pricing and rarity
A holiday variation exists for one of the earliest known hockey cards