Sports Bookmark Trade Cards (HD8F)

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	HD8F Sports Bookmark Trade Cards
Year	Unknown
Size	1 7/8″ x 6″
Images	Color
Type	Trade Card
Number in Set	Unknown

Sports Bookmark Trade Cards (HD8F) Overview

Hallet and Davis Pianos Football Bookmark HD8F Soapine Baseball Bookmark These unique trade cards were actually bookmarks for at least two companies – Soapine, a cleaner that could be used for all sorts of household items and furniture, and Hallet & Davis, a piano company. They were likely used by others. They are not only shaped like bookmarks, but actually have the word ‘bookmark’ printed on them.

They were clearly an advertisement and are considered a trade card issue. advertising bookmarks were identified by Jefferson Burdick in his American Card Catalog in his Art Types category in the Advertising Cards Classification. Art Types are identified as HD8 and bookmarks are in subsection ‘F’. Therefore, this issue has the somewhat cumbersome HD8F label.

While I have seen many subjects in this set, the only athletes I have seen are the baseball and football players pictured here. Some of these bookmarks have a turquoise and white-colored border with a floral print while other borders are red.

Trade Card No. 205 Connection

Of particular note is that this image may seem familiar to trade card enthusiasts.

Card No. 205 (as cataloged by trade card collector Frank Keetz) was a trade issue produced for Western and Southern Life Insurance. That set featured these same children in the same outfit/pose against a blank background on a traditional trade card instead of a bookmark.

It should be noted that, while I have not seen a bookmark for the other two children in that trade card set (girl playing tennis and golf), I would suspect they exist based on the inclusion of the baseball and football players.