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01-30-2007, 12:03 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2kpftl" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/2kpftl</a>
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01-30-2007, 12:42 PM
Posted By: <b>Dave G</b><p>Hmm i think I may have used a good number of such bags as barf bags. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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01-30-2007, 12:48 PM
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I forget the myth of the Scrapps...can you clarify?
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01-30-2007, 12:54 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>The myth is that they were included with a tobacco product. I believe it may have originated with Rob Lifson in the 1970s.
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01-30-2007, 01:21 PM
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>We know Burdick classified them as Y-95 (which no one except me uses <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14> ) but do we know where they came from definitively?
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01-30-2007, 01:30 PM
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Scrapps is one of those sets that nobody knows for sure where they came from.
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01-30-2007, 02:01 PM
Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>They were issued in sheets held together with small tabs (sometimes still seen on some cards) similar to the Rafael Tuck & Sons Artistic Series diecuts of the same year.<br /><br /> The T&S Art Series diecuts were printed in Germany, so the Scrapps may have been too, but there is no proof.<br /><br />For those that havent seen one, here is a non baseball Scrapps.<br /><img src="http://members.aol.com/canofprimo/scrappsnonbaseball.jpg"><br />(you can still see evidence of the tabs, back of head, top of head, left and right shoulder)
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01-30-2007, 05:13 PM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>The story is that some incorrectly thought Scrapps was a brand of tobacco, and the cards<br />were sometimes listed as Scrapps Tobacco. They aren't a tobacco issue. Scrap <br />is a type of tobacco used to make cigarettes-- which may have caused the initial<br />confusion. In short, the eBay scap tobacco bag (which once contained scrap tobacco)<br />has nothing to do with the Scrapp baseball cards-- any more than a vintage box of<br />corn cobbs has anything to do with the T206 Ty Cobb. Yes, they both have the word<br />cobb in the name, but otherwise they are unrelated.
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01-30-2007, 05:17 PM
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Rob Lifson still claims that he coined the term "Scrapps" and while I never doubt a friend, it does sound a little like hobby myth and legend. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>