1910 piedmont cigarettes baseball cardboard sign

[CrackaJackKid]

I recently acquired this piece. It’s absolutely beautiful of what is there. According to my research, there’s only two known examples..? One sold in Heritage but I have not seen the other. Of course mine is not complete but it is double sided, unlike the one in Heritage. Anyone know where I could locate photos of the other known example? And does anyone know the history of these pieces? Any insight would be much appreciated.

[jingram058]

https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-c...a/7185-80069.s

Here apparently is what the whole thing would look like.

[3-2-count]

Wonderful piece.

[CrackaJackKid]

Originally Posted by jingram058

https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-c...a/7185-80069.s

Here apparently is what the whole thing would look like.

That is the Heritage reference I mentioned. They claim there’s two known examples.

[CrackaJackKid]

Originally Posted by 3-2-count

Wonderful piece.

Thank you Tony

[peterb69]

That is beautiful

[todeen]

that's interesting the two sides aren't identical. I prefer the side where the pitcher is available.

very cool! thanks for sharing

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[Carter08]

That is amazing.

Smart strategy is to hit to right because the pack of cigarettes will get in the RFs way.

[Jason]

Amazing looking still. Nice addition.

[Jobu]

This is a serious coincidence, but user dbfirstman just happened to post this photo in another group I am in. It is at the National Postal Museum in Washington DC.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Jobu

This is a serious coincidence, but user dbfirstman just happened to post this photo in another group I am in. It is at the National Postal Museum in Washington DC.

I like it as well as the partial that CrackaJackKid posted. On the full version, though, my eyes gravitate toward the goofy guy wearing the goofy cap selling the Piedmont cigarettes. I guess the Piedmont folks knew how to get folks to pay attention to their product.

Brian

[CrackaJackKid]

Originally Posted by Jobu

This is a serious coincidence, but user dbfirstman just happened to post this photo in another group I am in. It is at the National Postal Museum in Washington DC.

This very well could be the 2nd example Heritage was referring to.

[Baseballcrazy62]

Very cool piece!!

[chriskim]

Very nice piece! However, I wouldn't give much credit to Heritage stating there were only 2 examples known to exist. They would be in trouble if they state the one in their auction was the only one in existence. It is a very common practice to make that "existence" number very low to help out the hammer price for item like this.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by chriskim

Very nice piece! However, I wouldn't give much credit to Heritage stating there were only 2 examples known to exist. They would be in trouble if they state the one in their auction was the only one in existence. It is a very common practice to make that "existence" number very low to help out the hammer price for item like this.

For some of my rare cards I often use the term "known". No one with half a brain is going to normally say exactly how many of something there is, because another can be found.

To the original topic, that is a magnificent poster-sign!!

This is the only AWA McCauley known
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