Dating Pre-War Cards is not Always Easy
Trying to determine a pre-war card’s specific origins can be difficult
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The Dean Brothers Rice-Stix Shirts Are Very Bad
Anyone wearing these shirts should be given a free bowl of soup
Read moreRare Notebook Cuts Often Mistaken for E95 and E96 Caramel Card Proofs
Cuts from the 1913 Baseball Series Notebooks are sometimes called proofs
Read moreFive Easy Steps to Collecting Pre-War Cards
Want to begin a pre-war card collection? Start here.
Read moreRare 1923 Lections Cards Have Holes … and no one Seems to Care
The Lections set has something to do with an election but that’s about all we know It’s Election Day. And when you think of pre-war Election cards, there’s no more unique issue than the incredibly rare and odd 1923 Lections set. In the 100ish years these cards have been around, we’ve got plenty of bits and theories surrounding their existence.
Read moreAre Some R316 Kashin Baseball Cards Really Brody Novelty Issues?
An intriguing envelope could be the key to identifying a new pre-war baseball issue So, if you’ve found this article, you may be aware of the R316 Kashin photos set. In short, they are a set of 101 small baseball photographs of players produced around 1929-30, cataloged as R316. Little is known about the supposed publisher, Kashin, but an interesting
Read moreDistinguishing Between the Five Diamond Matchbooks Baseball Sets
Here’s how to separate the Diamond Matchbook covers The 1930s Diamond Matchbook covers featured numerous baseball players of the era. These aren’t technically baseball cards in the mold that we think of them today. But they are cataloged in the American Card Catalog and very much collected. The problem is there are actually five different sets and keeping them straight
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