1909 Niagara Baking Set (D355)

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	D355 Niagara Baking
Year	1909
Size	1 5/8″ x 3″
Images	Color
Type	Bakery
Number in Set	50

D355 Niagara Baking Overview

The 1909 D355 Niagara Baking set is no different than the E101 set. The only difference designating them as D355 cards is a stamp on the backs from the Niagara Baking Company.

In fact, Jefferson Burdick noted this in his American Card Catalog. In that book, he calls the set, ‘hand stamped, Niagara Baking, as E101.’

Card fronts include colorful lithographs along with player names, positions, and teams. The back advertises that 50 cards are in the set. While the cards are known to be E101 issues, however, it is not known if every E101 card can be found with the Niagara Baking stamps.

The Niagara Baking Stamp reads as follows:

“One of these pictures given with the Tip-Top, Family, Butternut or Homestead Breads. NIAGARA BAKING CO., Lockport, N.Y.”

Niagara Baking was far from the only company to do this. Several companies took regular card sets and ‘made them their own’ by adding their stamp or printing to them. It saved the cost and time of trying to produce their own sets.