Was this the first baseball postcard?

[BeanTown]

Surprised more are not looking at postcard and at least asking “hey is this really what it is presented as printed this way or a created.

Here’s another red flag: look at the edges of the postcard. WHY is it not perfectly machine cut rectangularly? If you look at the edges, it looks to have an irregular imperfect cut especially obvious in a few places along the edge. No machine (obviously) cuts like this. Another red flag that this is not an as-made machine-cut mass produced postcard. Why would the edges not have the quality and uniformity of a machine cut postcard. I know that anyone can theoretically take a scissors and do anything to a postcard but is that the explanation for the cut?

But at bottom border the black line can only be seen on left side of bottom border. It’s hard to tell if the black border does not appear on the right due to the hand cut, OR if it is on the same plane (as the black line to the left on bottom border) in parts on the right and it is just missing. If that is the case. Then if is missing because if wasn’t printed there. And the reason could be as simple as the bottom black border separates a newspaper story from the illustration above.

Postcard appears to be sent to “?” S.A. Pierce of Glafton, Mass. just looking online this appears to be a prominent family in Glafton. I guess foreign stamps were ok to use going from Canada to US in 1893 (i have no idea how these things work)

Looking at edges: on right side a black border is easily seen.

[BeanTown]

Interesting that this same item is back again in Huggins and Scott from their previous auction. Looks like a new description with it being folk art. Plus a lower starting bid.

https://www.hugginsandscott.com/cgi-...l?itemid=43718