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Old 07-02-2007, 08:32 AM
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Recently I have had communications with Jason L from our board concerning an auction won on ebay not long ago. It pertained to some Australian baseball cards. Not too much has been written on this board about them as the information is not widely known, nor is it known almost anywhere. Jason has traded emails with an Australian gentleman, Mark Gilbert, about these cards. Mark has been nice enough to let us provide his insight into Australian cards to the board. He does want it known that much of this information is conjecture based upon his experiences collecting them. This is exactly what he asked us to say pertaining to the information he gave us.

"I would ask that you clearly state that the information is my opinion & anecdotal (i.e. information gathered from the thoughts & opinions of the dealers /collectors I have met & spoken with over the years) and not printed fact."

With that being said here is some information rarely seen......This is from Mark Gilbert-

Hi Jason,

There is not a great deal of literature available on Australian trade
cards in mainstream publication, the only Australian book of note is on
tobacco issues which was printed in about 1982.

Murray's (UK) "Cigarette Card Values" Guide has a section on trade cards
& covers a number of Australian issues. If you can get a hold of this
book it probably covers the bulk of the vintage issues in terms of Set
Name, Year of issue, number in the set, card value etc but does not tell
much more than that (i.e. there is no description of the cards that make
up the set).

However the bits & pieces I have picked up over the years may be of some
use....

Companies quite often traded card designs among themselves to save the
cost of an original production and inserted their own brand on the
designated blank areas on the reverse. This enabled tobacco outfits like
Wills to issue the same cards with three different brands of their
tobacco - Capstan, Vice Regal & Havelock. You would know this yourself
from the different brands on the backs of the T205 & T206 cards.

The c1916 "Sports of the World", if the issue dates are accurate, was
originally released as a MacRoberstons 50 card issue (MacRobertsons was
a large Australian confectionary firm). They also issued the set in a
non-colour sepia version. Wills tobacco (Australia) used this same
design in 1917. Which company was the originating designer of the set is
something I do not know but at a guess I would say it was Wills who sold
/ leased it to MacRobertsons and that part of the deal was that
MacRobertsons could use the design first.

Obviously buying a design was ideal for smaller companies that wanted to
get in on the act of giving away a card with their product but could not
afford to do their own design or print a large numbers of cards.
Therefore, while Wills & MacRobertsons cards would have probably hit the
market in large numbers a smaller outfit such as Village Maid (as on
your card) would certainly be the rarer back.
To the best of my knowledge any issuer of this set put it out as the
full 50 cards. They covered a variety of sports - both popular & the
lesser known - but the most keenly sought odds are the Cricket,
Baseball, Boxing & Golf cards.

The Allen's card is of a 1936 issue and for a long time was freely
available amongst dealers. However once there was noted interest in 4
odd cards from the series - USA (Golf & Baseball), Australia (Cricket) &
Scotland (Golf) they have become harder to find. I have sold the
Baseball card in the past (in nr mint condition) for US$50. The set
contained 36 cards.
Allen's was into a variety of subjects - Royalty, War Medals, Soldiers,
Cricketers & Footballers but this was their only venture into 'mixed'
sports sets that I know of.

I don't know of any other Australian card issue that relates to Baseball
however there is a Wills (UK) 1901 set called Sports of All Nations with
card #1 being Baseball with a great depiction of a 19th century Baseball
figure. Again, this was at one time not too hard to get but is now
almost impossible to find.

Hope this is of some help!

Kind regards,
Mark



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Posted By: Andrew

Another interesting reference. Love the foreign type stuff and would love to see a scan. I somewhat regret not bidding higher on a recent foreign lot offered in Mastro or REA.

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andrew, here is the extent of my "foreign" trade cards...i particularly like the "bristol & london" the best, no australian sorry.





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Posted By: Jason L

Thanks Leon, for posting, and helping to place in context, -and in the spirit requested by Mr. Gilbert. It was all new to me, and it is exciting to learn that it is new to more experienced collectors as well !

Here are the cards I bought from Mr. Gilbert. These are the ones he references when he mentions "the Allens card" (similiar to Leon's) and the "Sports of the World with Village Maid back"
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Posted By: Anonymous

I have seen plenty of those baseball cards down here with the "MacRobertsons" back, but never the Village Maid. Good pick up !

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