Pre-War Cards

Introduction

S-Cards are silk or stamp issues. The American Card Catalog really just uses this designation for silks but I have added stamp issues here as well. Some collectors classify those as ST-Cards.

Silk issues were unique items generally packaged with tobacco products and exactly what they sound like – items made of swatches of silk. The stamps, however, are not necessarily stamps as we think of them in the traditional sense.

Most silks were printed in the 1912-1915 range, as Jefferson Burdick indicated in his American Card Catalog. However, earlier silks are known to exist as well, dating back to the late 1800s.

The term stamps can refer to actual stamps. However, they are often also referred to as small stamp-like cutouts of paper or cardboard – not necessarily postage stamps with a backing that allowed you to affix the item to something else. The Rinkeydink Stamps, for example, were merely small cutouts from a section in a newspaper.

The stamps that were newspaper cutouts are not merely pictures of players. While their collectability may be debated, the reason they have become sought after is because they were deemed stamps or types of items designed to be cut out in the newspaper. The 1936 Newspaper Sport Stamps, for example, had an outline in the shape of a postage stamp and had the printing ‘Sport Stamp’ on them. It is obvious that they were designed to be cut out of the newspapers as opposed to a standard picture.

Sets

1912 Baseball and Celebrity Stamps	1909-10 Baseball Silks (S74)	1912 Boston Red Sox Tattoos
Canadian Miscellany Silks (SC12)	1937 Caribbean Games / Nicaragua Baseball Stamps	1938 Caribbean Games / Panama Stamps
1939 Centennial of Baseball Stamps	1939 Centennial of Baseball Postage Stamp	1910s College Yell Silks (S23)
1935 Colombia Olympics Stamps	1915 Eureka College Stamps	1934 Far Eastern Games Stamps
1935-37 George Burke Stamps	1935 George Burke Detroit Tigers Stamps	1915 Georgia Bulldogs Championship Stamp
1909-10 German Baseball Stamps	German Baseball Transfers	1923 German Baseball Transfers
1919 Great Allentown Fair Baseball Stamp	1915 Hinds Cream Stamps	1930s Lindt & Sprungli Stamps
Lord and Taylor Baseball Stamp	1914 Memphis Railway Station Baseball Stamp	1910 Murad College Silks (S21 & S22)
1944 New York Yankees Stamps	1936 Newspaper Sport Stamps	1912 Pillow Tops (S110)
1915 Postaco Stamps	1914 Pritchard Stamps – New York	1914 Pritchard Stamps – Yale
1927 Rinkeydink Stamps	1910s/1920s S-UNC Baseball Stamps/Transfers	1912 Silk Premiums (S81)
1938 Texas League of Safety Stamps	1944 Venezuela Serie Mundial de Base Ball Amateur Stamps	1917 Youth’s Companion Stamps

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