Ranking Baseball "Player" Postcard Sets

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

How difficult to find are some of the 1905-1919 era baseball postcard sets?

Ranking from most difficult to least difficult, how would you rank the following postcard sets:

A.C. Dietsche Postcards
A.C. Williams Postcards
American League Publishing Co. Postcards
Boston American Series Postcards
Bregstone Postcards
Cincinnati Reds World's Champions Postcards
Corbit Studio Inc. Real Photo Postcards
Crose Photo Company $ in the Shield Postcards
Detroit Free Press Postcards
F.J. Offermann Postcards
Gignon Postcards
H. M. Taylor Co. Postcards
J. B. Coyle Co. Postcards
Max Stein Postcards
Morgan Stationery Postcards
Novelty Cutlery Postcards
Pastime Novelty Pstcards
Pinkerton Photo Postcards
Rose Company Postcards
Sepia Postcards
Lawrence Semon Postcards
Sporting News Postcards
Topping & Company Postcards
Ullman "Art Frame Series" Postcards
United States Publishing House Postcards
Wolverine News Postcards

Thanks,

Patrick

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Posted By: Steve M.

I will rank the ones by difficulty 1 for easiest through 10 for toughest for the sets that I am more familiar with:

5. A.C. Dietsche Postcards
5. American League Publishing Co. Postcards
6. Boston American Series Postcards
6. Gignon Postcards
6. H. M. Taylor Co. Postcards
6. Max Stein Postcards
4. Morgan Stationery Postcards
7. Novelty Cutlery Postcards
8. Pinkerton Photo Postcards
10. Rose Company Postcards
6. Sepia Postcards
4. Sporting News Postcards
7. Topping & Company Postcards
10. Ullman "Art Frame Series" Postcards
6. United States Publishing House Postcards
6. Wolverine News Postcards

I rank these in difficulty in collecting the entire set not on the basis of finding samples.

I note that you left my favorite set off the list. The 1906 Sporting Life (W601) set that I rank as 9.

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Steve:

I had enough problems listing the "player" sets without bringing in the "team" issues.

Patrick

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Posted By: Steve M.

the word "players". My bad

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Posted By: rmacpa

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Posted By: Anonymous

What about E&S, they don't come up all that often.

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Posted By: fkw

IMO...Toughest to most Common (finding examples)

*added a couple

Corbit (only seen 1 ever)
Offermann (only seen about 5)
US Publishing (only seen about 5)
Bregstone (seen about 8)
*Boston Daily Am. Souvenir
*Rotograph
Ullman (seen about 25 total)
*E&S
1919 Red NL Champs (seen about 15)
Coyle (PC800) (seen about 20 total)
*Souvenir Postcard Shop (Clev.)
Wolverine News
Detroit Free Press
American League Pub.
RC Williams (Cy Young) (seen about 7)
Lawrence Semon
Boston American
HM Taylor
$ in Shield
Max Stein
Topping & Co.
Rose Co. (seen over 100 total)
Sporting News M101-3
Novelty Cutlery (seen about 75)
Pinkerton Photo cards (not a postcard but used as one)
AC Dietsche Cubs
Grignon (inc. Boston Oyster)
1919 Reds World Champs
Morgan
Sepia
AC Dietsche Tigers



??Pastime Novelty??

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Posted By: Paul

How about PC796 and 1906 Lincoln Publishing?

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Posted By: Anonymous

FKW -
I don't think the PC799 NL Champs are that rare. I've seen several in the past year.

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Posted By: fkw

Forgot about the Lincoln cards, they are tough, Id put them in the top 5-6

PC796 are also known as Sepia Postcards, they are fairly common.

As far as the PC799 (1919 Reds), the "World Champions" cards are very common (except the name at top variation), but the "National League Champions" cards are far far scarcer (I believe they were only issued for a couple weeks between the seasons end and World Series win).

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Posted By: Anonymous

Ted has most of them (yes the NL champions version) and acquired a large number of them this past year from several sources. They are definitely MUCH more difficult than the World's Champions version, i just didn't think they would go as high up on the list as you put them. Just my 2 cents though.

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Posted By: fkw

Guess Ive been missing them I used to look at the PC799 all the time looking for the NL cards and the Name at Top (miscut) cards, I have been looking much lately or just been missing them.

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Posted By: Anonymous

They were not sold publicly, I just think there are more than 15 (unless Ted just happened to corner the market on them). He may have some extras but I am not sure
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Posted By: fkw

Im sure there are more than 15 of the PC799 NL Champs cards, Thats just the number Ive seen in the last 8-10 years or so that Ive been looking for 1905-15 era single player postcards (that I can remember). I didnt really counting complete sets etc. in Major Auctions.

Some of the cards are often seen in large groups. PC799 WS Champs (I once bought a group of 15 cards on eBay), and AC Dietsche Tiger cards are seen in groups often. Even tougher cards like Grignon and Rose cards show up on eBay in groups sometimes, bring the number Ive seen far higher.

There is a group of the "$ in Shield" cards on right now, they are fairly rare overall, but this group makes them seen not so rare.

The rarest cards as far as numbers in existance are probably the Real Photo cards, like the Barr-Farnham pictured above, The Corbit Studio, and even the PC800 Coyle (Pirate Vignette) cards, etc.

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Posted By: Jeff Drum

Frank et al,
How common are the 1911 Wannamaker PCs?

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

I have only ever seen 1 other from this set (Bayless)
-Rhett