Introducing a NEW Pre-War Baseball Website...

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

As most everyone on this board already knows, one of my major focuses in this hobby is on baseball related cigarette and tobacco packs. Over the last year or so, I’ve noticed a dramatic increase in the number of collectors who share my enthusiasm for this little niche of the hobby. While some may not focus their collection around empty cigarette or tobacco packs, there are numerous people who have added a few or many to their collections. I constantly get emails and phone calls from other collectors who are looking for advice or have questions regarding cigarette and tobacco packs. It was with this in mind when I realized there really isn’t a lot of information on the web regarding cigarette and tobacco packs that once held baseball cards, and the little bit of information is available certainly not centralized. So, I’d like to introduce the following (both addresses lead to the same site; I just decided to purchase both URLs):

http://www.baseballandtobacco.com
http://www.baseballcigarettes.com

Over the last month or so, I’ve been patiently writing html code as a framework for this site. Last week, I purchased the domains and hosting services and since then, I’ve been working on uploading the pages I had been creating. While the site is probably about 90% operational at this point, I felt it’s time for an introduction but I apologize in advance for any missing links that you may encounter (these broken links will only be on the “Cigarette Boxes and Tobacco Packs” page and are missing due to me not having written those pages as of yet).

There are really two main sections to this website; the first is a research center that discusses how to date a cigarette pack as well as providing the corresponding factory, district and state codes for each set. The second section is the section entitled “Cigarette Boxes and Tobacco Packs” and contains correct scans of virtually every cigarette or tobacco package used in the distribution of cards organized (by ACC#) from 1886-1933.

As I continue to work on this site, I appreciate any and all suggestions and comments. Also, you will note that each set has a short summary. Should anyone who specializes in a particular set choose to suggest a better overview of that set, I would welcome the edits.

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Cool site Jon. Nice job!!

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

A quick glance and it looks like an excellent site with much-needed information.

Best of luck with it; I'm looking forward to spending more time with it.

-Al

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Great site Jon!!! I like how it compliments the Old Cardboard site. Easy to navigate and read.

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Posted By: barry arnold

a much needed and expertly done website which will help all of us
who love exploring the whole domain of cigarette packs and vintage baseball cards.
many,many thanks, Jon for all the efforts

best,
barry

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Jon:

Well done!

Kevin

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Posted By: Mark Holt

Great site. Thanks for posting.

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Posted By: Jay

Where did you get the information about Gypsy Queens that you include with the Gypsy Queen pack? I believe that some of it is incorrect:

1-Gypsy Queen set is more than 125 cards. It is poorly cataloged and that may be all that is listed, but the listing is certainly not complete.

2-Would be interested to know why you believe that large Gypsy Queens were acquired by redeeming coupons. I've never heard this and would like to know where you did. Have you ever seen such a coupon?

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Jay - email sent via GQ info.

Edited to add: The coupon info was my mistake - I used the Old Judge page as a template and overlooked that part. It has been corrected.

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Posted By: Matt

well done Jon!!

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Posted By: Tim

Wow!

Outstanding resource. Well done.

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Posted By: Joe_G.

Jon, thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge on packs. In addition to Jay's comment, the N175 Gypsy Queen cards were only distributed in 1887.

Best Regards,
Joe Gonsowski

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Thanks Joe - it has been fixed.

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Posted By: JimB

Great site. Thanks for a great contribution to the hobby.
JimB

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

Very informative site.. I bookmarked it for reference!

Love the content.. you should do well.

martyOgelvie
New York Yankee cards

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

Well done. eBay should have a link to this site.


Here's proof that this site is badly needed:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Unopened-Sweet-Caporal-Tobacco-Pack-T206-Honus-Wagner_W0QQitemZ110271787567QQihZ001QQcategoryZ317 18QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I offered $1 and was shot down. Note scans are too small to make out anything except that the tax stamp is a Class A 10 cigarette stamp. Pretty sure the other offers were the same as mine. What an idiot this guy is thinking he can con someone out of $3999!

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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

Nice job, Jon. Very cool to have all of this info in one place.

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Posted By: Scott Sarian

Great site; I'm sure I'll check it as a reference tool many times!

FYI -the link to the N300 Mayo Cut Plug tin does not seem to be working right now, however...

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Posted By: Scott M.

Hi Jon,

I've referred to your book several times over the years and it has been a great resource. I'm glad to see that you now have a website as well where those of us who collect packs can visit.

Excellent job!

Scott

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Scott S - yes, I hope to have the Mayo link up at the end of today.

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

I would like to re-request any information that that anyone out there has for the brands listed below. As of right now, I have been unable to secure scans/images or confirm the existence of cigarette packs/tobacco pack of the following:

1.)Imperial Tobacco (C46)
2.)Buchner Gold Coin
3.)Consolidated Cigarette / Pixi Cigarettes
4.)Yum Yum (need better scan of the tin)
5.)Number 7 Cigar
6.)Pinkerton Tobacco
7.)Napoleon Little Cigars
8.)Victory Tobacco
9.)Cullivan’s Fireside Scrap
10.)Mino Cigaretets
11.)Kotton Cigarettes
12.)Lorillard Tobacco
13.)4 Base Hits Tobacco
14.)Sporting Extra Cigarettes
15.)Just So Tobacco
16.)Plow Boy Tobacco
17.)Worch Cigars

Also, I have added a prompt for a mailing list to the main page and the for sale page of the website. Please sign up if interested.

Thanks again!

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Nice site indeed Jon.

That Fans pack photocopy is interesting-I wonder if the Bigbee card photocopy can also be traced to the Steiger collection?

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Posted By: Mike McKee

Really a cool site with some great information!