Variations Bolster a W512 Strip Card Master Checklist
Overview The W512 strip card set, like most strip cards, isn’t all that appealing to look at. In most cases, the pictures are pretty bad and appear to be crude [...]
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All 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth Cards are not Created Equal
The 1933 Goudey set is one of the most iconic releases in baseball card history. There are any number of reasons to collect it but, aside from the shortprinted Nap Lajoie [...]
F52 Fro Joy Set began with Gene Tunney, not Babe Ruth
Want to have some fun? Play a word association game with baseball card collectors and mention Fro Joy. If they happen to be a collector of pre-war cards, you’ll likely [...]
How the 1938 Lew Fonseca Kellogg’s Box Panels Helped Build a Baseball School
The 1938 Lew Fonseca Kellogg’s Box Panels are a tough issue for pre-war collectors. They aren’t nearly as numerous as the Wheaties issues from the 1930s and part [...]
How to Grade Your Cards … Accurately. Somewhat. Maybe.
Stop the Madness - P/F cards shouldn't be graded as VG or EX [...]
Discovering a New T205 John Titus Print Error Variation
The T205 Gold Border set has numerous variations. The issue has a total of 208 different cards but 221 are generally considered to be required for a master set. On top of [...]
Ranking all 36 of the 1935 Goudey Card Fronts
An Introduction to Nonsense, Really The R321 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 cards are popular with collectors for any number of reasons. They are easily identifiable as they were the [...]
Rare Baseball Stamp Part of 1930s Safety Promotion
With the popularization of automobiles increasing after the Great Depression, driving safety became a major focal point in the 1930s. After driving accidents and deaths had [...]
What is Joe DiMaggio doing in the 1939 Orcajo Cincinnati Reds Postcard Set?
The 1937-39 Orcajo Cincinnati Reds postcards set was classified as PC786 by Jefferson Burdick in his American Card Catalog. The set, which was printed over a three-year [...]
Could 1938 Whitman Big League Baseball Game Card Baserunner be Lou Gehrig?
1938 Whitman Big League Baseball Game Background In 1938, the Whitman Card Game was produced by the Whitman Publishing Company. The game was the creation of two gentlemen, [...]
Before there was Bowman, Topps, and Goudey, there was … Fleer?
Quick – what’s the first thing that pops into your head when you think of Fleer? Its first real ‘modern’ set back in 1981? The infamous Billy Ripken [...]
E120-like Cards in 1922 Olsen’s Baseball Game Ad a Mystery
In the pre-war era, baseball playing card games were all the rage. There are several of them dating back to the late 1800s and they featured a simulated style of play. In [...]
