1887 A42 Kimball Album Set and Checklist

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	A42 Kimball Champions Album (N184 supplement)
Year	1887
Size	5 3/4″ x 7 3/8″
Images	Color
Type	Album
Number in Set	50 (album cut cards)

A42 Kimball Champions Album Overview

The 1887 N184 Kimball Champions set was a typical 19th Century tobacco card release. Similar to the popular N28 and N29 Allen & Ginter sets and the N162 Goodwin Champions set, it included 50 cards of various types of athletes from around the world. The N184 cards aren’t as popular as those other issues, but are more difficult to find.

Kimball also developed the A42 Kimball Album as a premium to go along with the set. These albums are scarce. Collectors will also find them in various forms. Sometimes, the albums are complete. Other times, individual pages from the album will be offered for sale from albums that have been separated. In addition, cards are also cut out individually from the pages (each page contained several cards). While these do not hold the same value as the regular cards, there is certainly a market for them.

Pages were not stapled together like a traditional book today. Instead, they were bound together with a string.

Among the most popular cards are the four baseball players. None of the four were Hall of Famers, but since they were baseball players, they will always have some interest from collectors. The baseball players included are Dell Darling, Tip O’Neill, E.A. Burch, and Hardie Henderson.

Also popular with collectors is the card of rifle shooter Annie Oakley and that of pugilist/boxer Jack ‘Nonpareil’ Dempsey.