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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>Measures 3" by 2". Copyrighted Bufford Boston. Thanks.<br /><br />&lt;img src="<img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1174180021.JPG">"

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>It's some kind of comic trade card, but not one I have seen before, so it must be pretty scarce. Bufford published a four card color set that is among the prettiest of all the baseball trade cards. But this black and white one is new to me.

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>Agree that it looks like an 1800s trade card. There were variety of captioned comic baseball trade cards in the 1800s. Also agree that yours isn't a commonly found example.

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Posted By: <b>jims</b><p>This trade card is listed in Frank Keetz's book "Baseball Advertising trade cards" checklisted as single cards with titles. He lists it as a single card, "probably 1870s from uniform".

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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>thanks for the info. I knew it would be here. 1870's, eh? That's nice.

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Posted By: <b>Lyman</b><p>Steve, the card was originally printed with space at the bottom reserved for a sponsor's ad message. The full card measures approximately 4-3/8 x 2-5/8 inches. See example below.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.oldcardboard.com/o/h/h804/singles-titled/131.jpg"><br /><br />Lyman

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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>Looks like they had "trimming" issues even back in the 1870's. <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14>