Pre-War Playing Days Autographed Cards
 

Wondering if anyone has pre-war playing days autographed cards (preferably in PSA slabs), that they would care to show, of the biggest and earliest 20th Century guys: Wagner, Cobb, Matty, etc. I don’t know of any 19th Century, do any exist?

Paul (t206collector on here) has assembled probably the definitive reference to early Pre-War signed cards at his website: http://www.signedt206.com

It’s loaded with scans of amazing signed Pre-War cards. As for 19th century signed cards, I know I’ve seen a back signed Connie Mack N172 and a Hugh Duffy N300. If he doesn’t have images of those two I can dig them up somewhere.

Edit: Also I’ve been traveling for work a lot this month and if I didn’t get back to you I received the Deportivo Noble a while back and meant to thank you for the great card. Happy collecting Phil!

Thanks, Steven. Info is much appreciated and I’m glad that you are happy with your purchase.

Most of the signed prewar cards that currently exist in the hobby were signed well after the player featured on the card retired. However, consider the following article, which was posted on Net54 some years ago:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6bcd4d24_c.jpg

In addition, below is a link to a very brief article about a group of 1871-72 Warren CDVs, which were all signed during the players' playing days -- six of the players added date notations to their signatures, each within a span of three days from July 22nd 1872 to July 24th, 1872:

https://www.signedt206.com/earliest-...baseball-cards




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Images of those two (and plenty of others) are at this link:

https://www.signedt206.com/misc-signed-deadball-cards





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Awesome, thanks, Paul. I am definitely going to check out all of that info.

Don’t think I saw any Wagner playing days auto cards with any of those links. Do they not exist? I know Shoeless Joe does not. How about Matty?

Wagner signed several in 1930s-1950, principally when he was a coach with the Pirates later in life. But, I assume you have been asking about signing such cards during their playing careers — and not after retirement.

Wow. Now we even prefer our scans in PSA slabs?!

1929 Tower Theatre...
 

I don't have many autographed cards....

Not a Wagner or Matty, but I have a couple. The Lombardi is for sure signed while in the PCL and the Gehringer is harder to tell, but since it's fountain pen, pretty good chance it was signed during his playing days.