1922 E123, I have a dupe that is maybe VG EX, PM me mailing info and I'll send it to you.

Picked these up to go with the incoming DeMille (thank you Peter). Looks like sets of the lobby cards aren't very expensive.

Now if there's a card of Mel Brooks as Moses from the Ten Commandments parody in History Of The World Part I, I'll have a new grail to chase...

Very rare Ingrid Bergman card from all the way back in 1936. Her first almost certainly.

Leo XIII was pope from 1878 to 1903, the oldest reigning Pope in history, so he has a ton of CDV's and Cabinets that far outstrip demand today, making him a great bargain for history collecting. Perhaps most importantly to history nerds, Leo XIII was the one who opened the Papal Archives to outsiders and enabled an immense amount of historical research and knowledge to enter the public sphere.


This is a black and white photo like most cabinet cards, the coloring is all uniquely hand done on the photo itself. Sometimes this was done by the photographers shop and sometimes by an artistic buyer (I assume). I was happy to get this one because of the great detail in the art - most of the time the artist did things like add red to the face, color a garment. None of the original photo is visible anymore besides the background, and in hand the detail they went to with he shading and coloring is impressive.

I finally picked up her first card, a 1962 Dutch Gum issue.

A pretty late CDV, of the future King Edward VII. I believe this to be a rather unprofessional 1890's creation.

Thank you, Peter. Cecil goes to my desk display

Marie Antoinette, who can't have been half as bad as they said.

And a Napoleon, one of the great men of history, I got a few days ago for a few bucks. The cabinet is not actually unbranded; there is some upside down text with part of an address and the studio at the top. The picture was pasted on upside down, so it is covering most of the caption. It wasn't supposed to have a big white blank space.

Wilhelm II and his family.

This is my wheelhouse….the raw Lee is the toughest in the group (N419). Much tougher than the fabled T206 Wagner as a comparison.

Wow! those are fantastic. :eek:

Wow, Richard. Those are great some non-sports cards. I love the Edison and I know the foldout Declaration of Independence T70 card is tough.

From what I have been seeing, the N76s of the most notable subjects have really taken off in price recently.

My one N76.

Great cards, Richard. That T70 is wonderful!

Not a cabinet photo, but a cabinet card with a color art picture. One of my favorite types of cards aesthetically, they usually look gorgeous and are blessedly cheap.

Not the best shape, but a relatively tough card and when I submitted a nicer one to SGC they min. sized it bizarrely.

Slightly older for TR:

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Not a cabinet card, but a trade card in cabinet size, and readily found. Dewey was an American hero at this time.

From what year do you think the Dewey cards are?

They are usually listed as 1899, but that is the date the photograph was taken, not the year the card was issued. The best date method is to probably dive into the store records. In 1900 they had almost 200 stores, the front says 225 so it’s probably c. 1901-1905. A&P went out of business just a few years ago and was the worlds largest retailer for a while, so it probably wouldn’t be too hard to dive into the primary sources and better pinpoint.

Anyone know the origins of this Lincoln?

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