Harry Beecher is Credited as the Subject of the First Football Card. But Who was He?
The player on the first football card isn’t a known commodity to most The first true football card, often like the first ‘anything’, is always up for [...]
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Allen & Ginter, Kimball, and Goodwin Champions Got Their Start in 1800s
19th Century pre-war cards have been given new life again with recent issues In the 19th Century, tobacco card sets began focusing on a variety of sports. Numerous non-sports [...]
Roots of American Tennis found in 19th Century tobacco cards
Early tobacco cards introduced the sport to America Quick – what are the earliest tennis players you can think of off the top of your head? Many collectors might [...]
Serious Type Collecting in the Pre-War Era can be Challenging
A Look into the Challenges of Pre-War Type Collecting For the most part, I am a set collector. I like the idea of having complete sets rather than a few scattered cards here [...]
Can You Solve this 19th Century Baseball Puzzle Found in the Duke N125 Set?
A long time ago, Duke, Sons, and Company produced all sorts of trading cards to go along with their tobacco products. In general, their cards aren’t as heralded or [...]
Five Reasons Pre-War Cards Belong in Your Collection
Most baseball card collectors break into the hobby by collecting issues of current players and teams. That’s only natural. I started collecting cards back in 1986 and [...]
Top Five (okay, Six) Pre-War Cards of All Time
I recently had the chance to discuss pre-war cards for an interview with the fine folks over at Collection Connections. One of the questions was an intriguing one asking for [...]
Are 1887 Buchner Gold Coin Cards Really Generic? Nope.
The 1887 Buchner Gold Coin set is a unique issue. The set includes 143 baseball cards and has been famous for being a set that includes generic images of players. That [...]
Sorting out the N48 and N508 Dixie, Virginia Brights, and Sub Rosa Women’s Baseball Sets
The N48 (and by extension, the N508) women’s baseball cards may be some of the most confusing pre-war issues. In particular, the N48 set is known to have numerous types [...]
Breaking into Pre-War Collecting: Tobacco Cards
Been a little while since I wrote one of my ‘Breaking into Pre-War Collecting’ articles. If you missed the first two, I first covered game cards and then strip [...]
George Wood Horizontal Pose a Gem in the 1887 N284 Buchner Gold Coin Set
The 1887 N284 Buchner set is kind of a strange issue. It is heralded as a great set by some because of a checklist that includes early cards of numerous Hall of Famers but is [...]
No, football isn’t included in the N88 Terrors of America set
When it comes to finding pre-war football cards, pickings can be slim. With the emergence of the sport in the mid-1900s, collectors have been looking to acquire earlier and [...]
