1888 R & S Diecuts
 

Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Have these ever been found in their original form like this before?<br /><br /><img src="http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/1/1/4/4/3/webimg/115759044_o.jpg">

1888 R & S Diecuts
 

Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>They are rare in that form but Ive seen a few sheets even a bit larger than yours. Very nice.

1888 R & S Diecuts
 

Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Oh, I should have stated they are not mine. I guess at some point they would have had to have found them since they actually have these named correctly in the price guides and it appears the name is found on the strip in between the scraps.

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Posted By: <b>Rhett Yeakley</b><p>Dan, I remember Terry Knouse had what appeared to be an entire sheet of them at the National at one point. That being said they are pretty tough to find with the Rafael Tuck & Son advert still attached.<br /><br />It has always puzzled me why they are called R&S Artistic Series, when it is clearly RT&S Artistic Series (short for Rafael Tuck & Sons)<br />-Rhett

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>1800s scraps (generic name for small die cuts of everything from puppies to angels to flowers to these ball players) were sold as sheets, with the individual scraps intended to be punched out, or otherwise removed. So originally being connected in sheet, or connected to each other, form was the norm. <br /><br />Scraps were invented in Germany and were originally made to decorate cakes. By the late 1800s, they were typically pasted into albums as a hobby.

This is very cool to see as a partial sheet, I had no idea they were Tucks! Raphael Tuck & Sons did a ton of printing of postcards, die cut greeting cards, and other ephemera.

I have some of the baseball guys, and also two boxing scraps (the actual technical term for die cut scraps such as these is "Oblaten", fwiw.)

Thanks for posting that, who knew?