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Posted By: barrysloate

Rewards of Merit were very popular in the first half of the 19th century, as teachers would give them to students, kind of like we would have gotten a gold star. There are hundreds of different ones known, several which depict bat and ball games. There is a more common one that is in color and has baseball as its central motif. This one has a smaller illustration of the game, but is scarcer. They usually sell around $150-200, I didn't see what this one went for.