19th Century Trade Cards

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Wow, that's a lot of info! I actually did better than I thought on my own. Took me a while to track down one in particular because it has a baseball line score, scorecard on the back so I wasn't calling it a trade card. Turns out it is a Brownie and the tailor from Allentown, PA who used the card must've given them out at games. But I'm sure all the info you just gave me will come in handy in the future! It's what I love about the auction business, you get to learn something almost every day!

[trdcrdkid]

Does it show brownies playing with a giant baseball? There were three sets of stock cards like that, with four, five, and six different pictures. The latter two have captions, while the four-Card set has no captions and no lithographer identified. Ron Schieber’s checklist of baseball trade cards has all the details, and might be a good resource to get if you deal with baseball-themed trade cards often.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

Does it show brownies playing with a giant baseball? There were three sets of stock cards like that, with four, five, and six different pictures. The latter two have captions, while the four-Card set has no captions and no lithographer identified. Ron Schieber’s checklist of baseball trade cards has all the details, and might be a good resource to get if you deal with baseball-themed trade cards often.

Yeah it's brownies and a giant ball captioned "A Panic-er" Most of what I deal with would be sports themed, and most of that baseball. THanks again for all the info!

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Yeah it's brownies and a giant ball captioned "A Panic-er" Most of what I deal with would be sports themed, and most of that baseball. THanks again for all the info!

OK, that's from the set of 5, which are the most common. All of the baseball-themed brownie trade cards are stock cards, meaning they were used by many different advertisers, who would imprint their name on the front or back of the card. Custom cards were made for just one advertiser, and generally had the company name integrated with the image somehow.

You might want to e-mail Diana Scheiber and get Ron's list of baseball trade cards. I think it costs $30, but it's worth it, with lots of color illustrations.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

OK, that's from the set of 5, which are the most common. All of the baseball-themed brownie trade cards are stock cards, meaning they were used by many different advertisers, who would imprint their name on the front or back of the card. Custom cards were made for just one advertiser, and generally had the company name integrated with the image somehow.

You might want to e-mail Diana Scheiber and get Ron's list of baseball trade cards. I think it costs $30, but it's worth it, with lots of color illustrations.

Pretty much what I figured, just a cool bonus that it was used for something baseball related!

[Leon]

Trade cards can be fun to collect. I picked this up recently just because I liked it. It is approximately 2 1/2 x 4 inches with a blank back. Lots of good info above on where to learn more about them.

[insidethewrapper]

I found this with a google search. http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/ba...rds/index.html