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Posted By: <b>Laura</b><p>I am in the process of deconstructing a derelict scrapbook album from 1891, and thought you all might appreciate these little guys (the upright one is about 3&quot; tall.) They are die cut Oblaten, or scraps, likely printed in Germany in a sheet. They had been cut apart (you can see the tabs where they were connected) and pasted into the album. Enjoy!<br><br><a href="http://s469.photobucket.com/albums/rr56/KatyDidsCards/?action=view&amp;current=Baseball.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr56/KatyDidsCards/Baseball.jpg" border="0" alt="Baseball players"></a>

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Those are the cleanest examples I've ever seen.

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Posted By: <b>Laura</b><p>Tom tells me they are from the R&amp;S Artistic Series, and when I Google, I see there were a total of ten. In this album are nine of the ten, and some dupes. Most are in pretty good shape too, we'll see once I leverage them out (oh so carefully!)<br><br>Here was another little treasure from that album, an N463 (that I've already shared over on the NS side):<br><br><a href="http://s469.photobucket.com/albums/rr56/KatyDidsCards/?action=view&amp;current=N463.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr56/KatyDidsCards/N463.jpg" border="0" alt="Football Girl"></a>

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Posted By: <b>Laura</b><p>There are also some boxers in with this group (still on album page), anyone know anything about them?<br><br><a href="http://s469.photobucket.com/albums/rr56/KatyDidsCards/?action=view&amp;current=Wrestlers.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr56/KatyDidsCards/Wrestlers.jpg" border="0" alt="Boxer"></a>

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Posted By: <b>B.C.Daniels</b><p>is my guess! i bought some Judo cards like this on e-bay a few months back and two different collectors told me they were from 1911. they look older to me!<br><br>BcD <img src="/images/happy.gif" height="14" width="14" alt="happy.gif">