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
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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 more‘It’s In The Details’ Title Kid Herman Boxing Year 1946 Size 3 1/2″ x 5 5/16″ Images Single-Color Ink Type Miscellaneous Number in Set 16 1946 Kid Herman Boxing Overview This somewhat mysterious set is believed to have been produced in or around 1946, though it is sometimes said their production lasted many years. The cards have the look of
Read more‘It’s In The Details’ Title C.W.S. British Sport Series Year 1904 Size 1 1/2″ x 2 3/4″ Images Color Type Miscellaneous Number in Set 50 1904 C.W.S. British Sport Series Overview This rare set is one of the numerous multi-sport issues that was produced internationally. The set is probably best classified as a miscellaneous type as advertisers on the back
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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
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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
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Babe Ruth’s career ended in the mid 1930s but he was featured prominently on cards throughout the decade
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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
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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
Read more‘It’s In The Details’ Title Signal Gasoline (UO11) Year 1947 Size 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ Images Black and White Type Oil and Gasoline Number in Set 89 1947 Signal Gasoline Set (UO11) Overview Issued in 1947, this unique set featured cards of minor league baseball players from teams in the Pacific Coast League. The cards have sort of a
Read more‘It’s In The Details’ Title St. Louis Browns Year 1941 Size2 ″2 1/4 x 2 3/4″ Images Black and White Type Miscellaneous Number in Set 30 1941 St. Louis Browns Team Set Overview This is a 30-card team set for the St. Louis Browns that was sold at the team’s stadium. It is similar in appearance to another 1941 set
Read more‘It’s In The Details’ Title Every Woman’s Man Year 1933 Size 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ Images Black and White Type Miscellaneous Number in Set 4 1933 Every Woman’s Man Set Overview These promotional cards were printed to hype a movie starring Myrna Loy and boxer Max Baer. While the cards are titled, ‘Every Woman’s Man’, that was actually not
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