1908-11 Bregstone Post Card
 

I am wondering if anyone has the complete set of the St Louis Cardinals Bregstone set?

I have been looking for the following images
1 Jap Barbeau
2 Shad Barry
4 Frank Betcher
7 Bobby Byrne
9 Frank Corridon
12 Steve Evans
14 Rube Geyer
16 Bob Harmon
17 Irv Higginbotham
20 Miller Huggins
21 Rudy Hulswitt
22 Adam Johnson
25 Lee Magee
29 Patsy O’Rourke
32 Elmer Rieger
Mike Farris 913-744-9560

A board member has a beautiful collection of them:

http://www.sportingoregon.com/p839800559

Bregstone postcards
 

Hi, here's a Magee.
For more visit http://www.sportingoregon.com.
Always buying!

Dang!
 

Those are incredible! I'm just looking for one as a type.... :(

Reprint Set available on ebay
 

I was also trying to upgrade from photos to something better when I ran across the Bregstone set of reprints on ebay. They are spectacular even though they are reprints

Tempted to buy a set to compare to the real ones, but I hate supporting people who reprint.

reprints
 

As long as they are clearly marked, I have no problem with reprints especially when they are from such a rare set as the Bregstones. In this reprint set, there are a few additions and deletions in comparison to the checklists in hobby publication that I thought was noteworthy. My lifetime (unattainable) goal is to collect one of every Cardinals card from beginning (1882) to current year. As everyone knows, some cards are so rare/expensive that one is lucky to have a reprint (at least as a placeholder to the real thing). I would love for someone to reprint the 1954 and 1955 Hunter hot dog Cardinals. I have been collecting these for 4 decades and only have about half and many I have never even seen a photo of the card.

Are the postcards marked as reprints?

Seller claims to own the entire original set. Pictures on eBay look great but I suspect they may be of the originals not the reprints.

If the quality of the eBay pics is in fact representative of the reprints then I don't think this is a bad deal.

not marked as reprints
 

While the seller of this set on ebay clearly indicates they are reprints, the postcards themselves are not marked as reprints. Having never seen a real Bregstone to compare with the reprints, I am not sure how close they are to the real thing.

Bregstones
 

I own all of the Bregstone postcards displayed at http://www.sportingoregon.com/p839800559. All of them are originals except for Sallee, which is a later print and is shown because it is the only example of that player I've seen.

Have you ever seen the reprints in person? Did the eBay seller use your images?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1908-H-H-Bre...QAAOSwT4lWRUqX

Slim
 

Slim and slimmer

Nice Dave!

Nice, but do you have a Bregstone of Eric?

I wish
 

Now THAT would be cool :)

Inside joke, sorry everybody. Blame Max.