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02-25-2004, 03:11 PM
Posted By: <b>RobertS </b><p>This series is related to the more obscure (and costly) Novelty Cutlery Postcard series which featured the same photographs (B&W, not sepia) surrounded by an ornate frame.<BR><BR>This sepia series is featured in the current VCBC, by the way.<BR><BR>Here are examples of two from this postcard set (the Lajoie, mentioned above, as well as an Evers-Schaefer card). There were two cards featuring two players (the other being Cobb-Wagner). Interestingly, both depict players who competed in the 1908 Tigers-Pirates World Series:<BR><BR><img src="http://www.vintageball.com/files/PC796_Lajoie_web.jpg"><BR><BR><img src="http://www.vintageball.com/files/PC796_Evers_Schaefer_web.jpg"><BR>