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
Read moreFive Weird Things You Didn’t Know Existed in the American Card Catalog
The American Card Catalog is likely the most important resource in the history of card collecting. Authored by Jefferson Burdick, the book gives us the classifications for most of our vintage cards today, such as T206, E90, and a host of others. If you’re unfamiliar with the book, here’s a quick breakdown. Essentially, the book categorizes cards in different classifications
Read moreObscure Pre-War Babe Ruth cards? There are a lot of them.
Babe Ruth has plenty of popular baseball cards, primarily from the late 1910s through the 1930s. The height of his popularity hit in the 1920s but even with his career winding down in the 1930s, Ruth still was featured on plenty of cards. But some of the Babe’s cards are pretty obscure. Not only are they difficult to find but
Read moreEven with His Career Nearly over, Babe Ruth Ruled the 1930s Baseball Card Issues
Babe Ruth’s career ended in the mid 1930s but he was featured prominently on cards throughout the decade
Read moreIs this the first baseball card? Well, about that …
Baseball cards, or some form of them, have been around for more than 150 years. With such a cloudy history, it’s easy to see why defining the first card has been so difficult to determine. ‘Determine’ is probably not the correct word, actually. If you present the evidence to individual collectors, many can come up with a determination of what
Read moreStarting a Pre-War Card Collection with $100
As I wrote recently, the 1936 Goudey set is the perfect set introduction for new pre-war collectors. It’s short, affordable, and doesn’t have any expensive cards if you can handle low-grade. But what about for those that don’t collect sets? Well, I recently wrote an article for Sports Collectors Daily, highlighting some cards featuring pre-war Hall of Famers that you
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