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Originally Posted by mr2686
Dating tickets, especially older ones can sometimes be difficult. Todays tickets have dates all over the damn things, but older ones do not. some of the older ones will have years on them and then game numbers. Those can be figured out by going to any site with games by year. On those (like yours) with no year, but game numbers, it can be a bit tricky. Things like the owners name on the ticket can give you some help, but not in your examples. After that, you can check and see if the game number corresponds with a home game for that team, but if a team was in a city for many years, that's not much help. You can also check by known examples and see if the style of ticket is within a certain year range...although some of these older tickets (like the Yankees, Cards and Cubs) had the same style for many years.
A good example of inconsistent tickets is Lou Brock 3000 hit tickets. A lot of the standing room only tickets had a year on them but no date. Fortunately, those tickets were listed with an -A- which indicated the first sellout of the season (the next sellout would be -B- and so on). General admission for that same game had re-used tickets with a year but no date and no designation. Sometimes they stamped a month and day on them, sometimes they didn't. Either way, it makes for some head scratching for whether the date that was stamped was original or stamped later.
Just some examples to show that tickets are things that need a lot of research before purchasing because there's a lot of good/original tickets that have no way of determining which game they're from.
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Hi Jim,
Mike is correct about what he is saying.
Generally speaking I can tell you that the Giants ticket on the left is roughly mid-late 1940's. The Cubs ticket in the center may be 1930's due to ticket price. The Braves ticket on the right is from Opening Day and is most likely 1974-1978 based on font.
Nailing it down to an exact date would be virtually impossible unless the ticket was attached to a scorebook or the date was incidentally written on it by the fan in attendance.
I hope you find this somewhat helpful...