Gary-My guess is that some are mislabeled and are CdVs. The trade card is much scarcer than the CdV, especially, as Corey says, untrimmed .

I bet that most of the know Trade Cards are trimmed. To me the ones that date to 1869 are really special. I would love to have one of the early ones with the St Anns address.

A quick search of REA results shows 6 trade cards and 7 cdvs. I would guess the breakdown between cdvs and trade cards is actually quite even.
Untrimmed trade cards are definitely in the minority and should command a premium.
Regardless of the breakdown, I've just never understood why this card, whether trade card or cdv, has never shot up in value. The image depicts, arguably, the most significant team in professional baseball history. It is also relatively rare with maybe 50 in existence, but not so rare to be unobtainable. I would think serious collectors would be competing to own one. It should be one of the hobby's highest demand cards, yet it has seen only modest gains in recent years. Maybe it's because it's a team card, but the strong demand isn't there.

The only untrimmed one with the St Anns address that I am aware of had the ice skate ad on the verso. As I recall it was returned to the NYPL as it was determined to have been stolen.

Is anybody aware of another untrimmed one with the St Anns address?

Corey-Do all the ones with the skate ad have the St Ann's address?

That untrimmed skate ad one with the St Ann address is the only ice skate ad P&S I can picture in my mind at this time. I have vague recollections over the years of seeing a few more, but I can't say for sure. I have no recollection of the addresses on their versos, but inasmuch as they were trimmed it is very possible the addresses were lost to the trimming.

A Texas Tommy Joe Jackson, if you can find one.

Hi Corey - I have these images in my photo library. Obviously the one example is trimmed, but you can still make out the Ann Street address

Thanks for sharing Kevin. The first one I believe was returned to the NYPL. The last one I had forgotten about.

Nice examples. Thanks for sharing.

+1

Just to be clear, those are not my cards - they are just images that I have downloaded from the internet over the years. I hope that the owners do not mind.

I understood that but others may not have. Still great cards wherever they are.

Thanks again