1860's tickets / invitations

[bbpostcards]

Anyone have any to sell or trade or otherwise post along the lines of the ones below? (The first is from the Philadelphia area, the others are from the St. Louis area).

[Scott Garner]

Cool post and great tickets!

I love this topic as I am a long time baseball ticket guy.
These are not all 1860's Base Ball related tickets, but they are 1870's-1900.
The 1st 3 are tickets from my personal collection, FWIW.

The red hole punched one (I don't own this one) was discovered within the last 2 years out on the east coast. Circa 1870, it's considered to be one of the earliest known actual game tickets. The white was is from the same discovery and its dated 1867.

[1880nonsports]

sort of!

[Bumpus Jones]

Ditto...

[GrayGhost]

GREAT tickets/passes. Interesting in that Mr. Garner's first photo the red ticket on upper right has "Baseball" as one word, instead of the two separate words. Time frame for that? I have a worn baseball where I think the words are separate and Im trying to get an age idea.

[Joe_G.]

Absolutely amazing tickets! Thank you to the posters for sharing such rare and interesting pieces from the games earliest days. I only have a couple Detroit tickets from the 1880s that I've already posted a number of times. Nothing earlier than that.

[Jay Wolt]

Wow! Fantastic tickets, such history & Americana.
Thanks for all the scans.

[Scott Garner]

GREAT tickets/passes. Interesting in that Mr. Garner's first photo the red ticket on upper right has "Baseball" as one word, instead of the two separate words. Time frame for that? I have a worn baseball where I think the words are separate and Im trying to get an age idea.

Hi Scott,
The red pass that you are asking about is dated 1900, but I believe the use of "Base Ball" was used in ML baseball for at least 10-15 more years on tickets.

Perhaps others can weigh in.

Thanks!

[Scott Garner]

Ditto...

Great Cincinnati ticket Chris!

[Bumpus Jones]

Thanks Scott.

[khkco4bls]

Here are mine. Love the early stuff.

[khkco4bls]

Hope these pics. Are better.

[GaryPassamonte]

Earliest base ball item I have.

[bbpostcards]

One more for the good of the order...

[vintagesportflips]

Shameless plug, but I have this 1868 invitation currently up on ebay, and will have a couple others in the coming weeks. For whatever reason my scanner made the scan look washed out. The invitation also has a cool ornate envelope.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1868-Una-Baseball-Club-Calico-Party-Invitation-19th-century-Early-Old-w-envelope-/00/s/NzEyWDEyNjE=/z/1oMAAOxy79JSYdap/$(KGrHqV,!k8FJBk03D63BSYd,ph9nQ~~60_57.JPG

Here is the link to the auction:
http://tinyurl.com/m9u6b8e

[scooter729]

Some awesome tickets to see here!!

My oldest is this trade card with a ticket printed on the reverse from 1882....