LOL! Todd, at least your collection once was well organized! Wish I could say the same! :)

Doesn't fit the OP's original criteria, but then again most of the posts don't as well. Here are three of top tier HOF'ers that are not mine, but are something not often seen.

Brian

Plows Candy cards, and the poses in them, are so awesome. What a great set

Here is a rare one - I understand it to be the first/earliest "baseball card"

That's a great cdv, Ryan. I love the old cdv's.


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Did you know that the Vassar Sweaters is a multi-sport set?
Like the Disbrow racer (and the Walter & Lajoie I had consigned), the Cobb & Speaker were originally oversized jumbos that were cut above their midsections to fit in a scrapbook some 100+ years ago.

Aaron, those are very cool! 1/1

Real photo postcards typically have rarely seen images.

E-unc
 

E-UNC MCCormick and Bridwell...incredible photography by me...Jerry

Jerry, are those yours? I love that "set". The Wagner below is my favorite Wagner card (not mine of course).



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Some really great cards
Seldom seen cards are a niche of my collection
As far as I know the only complete Vassar Cobb

Yes
 

That's awesome Craig...yes, Andy those are mine...always liked that Wagner...I know we had a discussion years ago on here about those cards but I don't think we ever figured out their provenance...Jerry

Yes, that’s an awesome card Craig.

Here is a Boston Daily Souvenir postcard of Joe Wood (only one I’ve seen) and a RPPC of Cy Young playing for an amateur team as their hired gun for the championship game.

I have a Boston Daily Souvenir of Joe Wood, so there are at least two.

Here's two very rare Cobb cards/images, I believe they're both 1/1.


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1860 Ambrotype
 

I never get tired of looking at this thread...

shown many times but other than that, not too many seen.
Not technically a card but sort of close to a tintype.

Love that, Leon!

Thanks Hank!

This is a double postcard of a person taking pictures of a women's game...

I assume this 1913 Zeenut of Parkin is seldom seen, as I hadn't seen it before 3 or 4 years ago (not mine). A pretty cool image and pose, even if some of you have previously laid your eyes upon it.

Brian

1893 August Beck & Co N398 "Football"
 

One of the earliest "Football" cards and 1 of only 2 copies graded by PSA & SGC.

Ty Cobb Lou Gertenrich (batting)
 

It is mislabeled and the back is badly damaged, but I believe there is only one copy of this pose on any of the pop reports. I've never seen another!

Fascinating thread. Amazing cards.

How about this one?

"The first black athlete depicted on a sports card, trading card or tobacco card, Hart appears in Thomas H. Hall’s Between the Acts & Bravo Cigarettes set (1880, N344), along with nine other pedestrians and two oarsmen."

His Wikipedia entry details how Hart played baseball in the early 1880s.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Frank_Hart.jpg

Here’s the other.

Kid manning leaning on rock 7 or 8 copies? The only one I’ve seen in the last 20 years is the one that I own. If there is really 7 or 8 copies I would love to see a scan of all of them. I was thinking maybe 3 or 4.

Carroll Boardwalk Brown
 

How about a 1915 lantern slide of Boardwalk Brown as a Yankee?

Fothergill or Hallet
 

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..from 1933 Wheaties postcards of the Minneapolis Millers ; the last two I needed ; took about 15 years to complete the entire set. My only Jack Hallet , but I have one other " Fats" Fothergill .

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Trying to determine if these baseball post cards are legit
 

As far as the Pinkerton Postcards go I found a thread here last night from a year ago saying that if the backs are gray or white then they are copies but if they are creamy white then they are originals. Also there is some distinction between made in the us and printed in the us?

I think that the backs on my look more creamy than white is because they had been in a photo album or on somebodies wall for decades. So not 1913 but possibly post WW2 copies?

And is there any insight to these other cards that anyone can give me?

I am looking on sending them all off to a private auction house.

Thanks in advance

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The Reese is a 1953 Canadian Exhibit card. The others are either run of the mill Exhibit cards or counterfeits.

Here are a few that haven't been shown yet:

1920s Univeral Toy & Novelty Surprise Box Ruth-Johnson-Sisler-Coveleskie:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...-Alexander.jpg

1936 Jean Donat Dupont Indiana Sport Avion Babe Ruth, in by far the best known condition:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...e%20Ruth_1.jpg

1950 Sylvan Sweets Jackie Robinson mail-in offer card:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...binson%201.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...binson%202.jpg

1904 Sporting Life Jeffries-Munroe cabinet. Only known example:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ffries%201.jpg

R340 Sport Kings premium. Only known example:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...y%20boxers.jpg

1905 Winthrop Moving Picture PC George Dixon, only known example:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...op%20Dixon.jpg

1927 Zeenut Willie Kamm, signed:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...m%20signed.jpg

1949 Sommer & Kaufman Lefty O'Doul, signed:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...l%20signed.jpg

1970 Pele from Israel:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...eli%20Pele.jpg

1970 Muhammad Ali from Israel:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...eli%20Clay.jpg

1954 Rodine Baseball Hall of Fame PC:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...e%20PC%203.jpg

1951 Ringside Salesman Sample w/Marciano RC:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...Sample%201.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...Sample%202.jpg

Here are a bunch team pieces you don’t see often

It strikes me that the wrestling verbiage is a little odd, as this depicts cards 31-34 and 36-39, a 1st series ad. Unless I’m horrible misremembering, the handful of wrestlers only appear in what is said to be series 2. Interesting, hadn’t noticed that before.

These W503 cards of Bill Ryan and Aaron Ward have great, sharp, full body action poses with stadium backdrops.

Brian

Not a lot of these around:

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seen the pose in photos. Not this card

Dots Miller/Jap Barbeau

Don’t see these too often…

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Very cool Andrew. What do the backs look like?

Thanks, Ryan. Here are the backs. I believe less than 5 total graded of each…

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Here's another:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...057843d1_z.jpg

Lajoie....

These store displays are not rare per se, but definitely not something that you see every day.

1940s/50s postcard from St. Petersburg's "Kids and Kubs" softball league. Player minimum age was 75 and they made Connie Mack (seated, dark suit + hat) an honorary member.

Damn, Jim, that thing is a work of art. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Adam! It’s a little rough due to having been pasted to a board and framed in its previous life. There’s 5 sports in the H818 series. I think the baseball is the coolest, of course!

https://prewarcards.com/2016/10/02/1...and-checklist/

Becker Brothers Theatre
 

Probably one of a kind,

Images of cards rarely seen!
 

I already posted this in the February pickup thread, but I think it’s worthy of posting here. I don’t believe there’s another picture on the Internet of this card.

https://caimages.collectors.com/psai...t.jpg?v=116702https://caimages.collectors.com/psai...k.jpg?v=116702


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Ryan, Leon, etc...Seeing your (amazing) PCs, Cabinets, Cards from the 1800's reminds me of the famous quote from Ken Burns' Baseball documentary...

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base", a certain game of ball...Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms...the game of ball is glorious."

-Walt Whitman, from the 23 July 1846 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle

One from my upcoming auction...