1911-14 D304 Martens Bakery Set and Checklist

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	D304 Martens Bakery
Year	1911-14
Size	1 3/4″ x 2 1/2″
Images	Color
Type	Bakery
Number in Set	25

1911-14 D304 Martens Bakery Overview

d304-01-baker While the D304 set is generally characterized as the General Baking Company set, theirs are hardly the only advertising backs on this issue. In all, five backs, including General Baking, Brunners, Butter Krust, Martens Bakery, and Weber Bakery distributed these cards as well.

The fronts of the cards across the various sets were all the same. They featured color lithographs of players and like other issues of the same era, had a white border with the player’s name printed at the bottom.

The Martens Bakery cards can be differentiated by the advertisement on the back. The top states that the cards were compliments of Martens Bakery while the bottom says they are wrapped in Butter-Krust and Little General Bread. These were a little different than some other D304 issues since they included the ad for a Bakery and not a specific brand of bread.

It should be noted that some cards in the D304 series have the team name blacked out. That was likely to denote players that changed teams during the time period the cards were printed. Their new teams are not printed but by blacking out the old teams, the cards were made a bit more current.

In terms of rarity, Weber Bakery, Butter Krust, and Martens are easily the most difficult to find. Brunners is by far the most common.

1911-14 D304 Martens Bakery Bread Checklist

While 25 cards are known in the entire D304 series (combined, among the five different backs), all 25 cards below have not been found with a Martens Bakery back. I have presented all 25 cards in the D304 series below since they could all theoretically have been printed with a Martens Bakery back. To date, though, not all of these have been found with that advertisement.