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 [...]
Tobacco Cards
Two T202 Hassan Triple Folders Panels Still Raise Questions for Collectors
The T202 panels are identical to the T205 cards in nearly every way The 1912 T202 Hassan Triple Folders set is one of the more unique tobacco card sets around. Those cards [...]
Kimball Champions Set Featured the Oddest of the Odd
A lot of odd stuff is seen on early sports cards. If you collect things like Sports of the World sets, you’re bound to come in contact with things you had never seen [...]
This is a Very Bad Haircut
Matty McIntyre’s hairstyle in the T206 set is one to forget On Tuesday, I was perusing my T206 cards. It’s something I do less of these days as I’m often [...]
Jefferson Burdick Viewed Cards Differently than we do Today
Jefferson Burdick is known for creating the American Card Catalog (ACC), the standard book in the hobby that helps us to categorize early trading cards. But while that is [...]
High-Grade PSA T206 Baseball Card Collection Raises $8 Million
When it was announced that the highest-graded T206 collection on the PSA registry was up for auction, we knew the prices would be staggering. With numerous 8s, 9s, and 10s, [...]
Abe Attell Cards Popular with Baseball Collectors due to 1919 Black Sox Scandal
The former boxer has ties to baseball through the 1919 White Sox Scandal Former boxing champion Abe Attell had ties to baseball for decades to die-hard collectors of Chicago [...]
Black Sox Scandal Fallout not the Only Reason for Lack of Shoeless Joe Jackson Cards
Would be Hall of Famer Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of the top players of his day. But despite being a well-known star, Jackson appears on an unmistakably low number of [...]
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 [...]
How a Common T202 Card Became Worth Hundreds Overnight
A mysterious baserunner created a craze for a former common T202 Hassan Triple Folders card If you’re unfamiliar with them, the T202 Hassan Triple Folders featured two [...]
Highest-Graded PSA T206 Set up for Auction by Heritage
One high-grade T206 card is pretty impressive. But how about 500+ of them? The largest known collection of high-grade PSA T206 cards is up for auction by Heritage. The [...]
Variations in T207 Set Add to its Intrigue
T207 variations expand the master set checklist The T207 brown background set is personally a favorite of mine. It’s not popular among some collectors because of the [...]
