Mr. Binder & Rose Co. postcards

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Posted By: Jerry Spillman

Mr. Binder you are ignoring an important question……

You have not answered the question concerning the RC McLean postcard. If you said yes you did remove the image icon from your RC checklist then the question is: Why? Why hide the picture of that card? If you said there was no image icon next to that name on your checklist it would not be the truth.

Another concern is the fact that only one RC Springfield postcards is named on your checklist when all 13 are listed on the Card Pricer Rose Co. postcard checklist. A mystery as to why these postcards are listed on this checklist.

In the period from mid-summer of 1908 and the fall of 1909 the Rose Company published and distributed their baseball players postcard issue. During this time and extending to at least 1912 they sold their postcards without including a picture inside the wreath on the postcard. The buyers of those blank postcards used them for inserting pictures of comic characters, other type pictures and some are found that were overprinted with just a greeting type message.

The Springfield Rose Company postcards fall into that category. Each of the 13 Springfield player postcards is unique. These Springfield baseball players had blank Rose Company postcards made up with each of their names and pictures placed on them and presented them to the wife of the owner of the Hotel where these players would hangout.

Just because the subjects of these particular postcards are baseball players and were made during the same time as the commercially sold Rose Company baseball player postcards does not mean that they are part of that issue. They should not be included on a checklist with the original postcards.

Restatement of the Card Pricer checklist.