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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Thanks Rhys!

Clearly in 1870 these cards were being sold INDIVIDUALLY to the public by Peck & Snyder...

so it really defies credulity to argue that they were NOT being sold to the public a year earlier.


Also...

if "The American News Company" did actually print some of these 1869 cards for OTHER companies with THOSE companies' ads on the back...

then wouldn't they still be JUST LIKE the 1916 M101-5 cards???

Those were all PRINTED by one particular company... but then sold to a bunch of different companies with THEIR specific ads on the backs??

I'm sure Gimbels gave those cards away to customers and didn't SELL them.

I'm sure Mall Theatres gave those cards away to customers and didn't SELL them.

They are still BASEBALL CARDS and not "trade cards."

I'm sure