19th Century baseball envelope
 

Wondering if anyone else had seen ads on envelopes? This is the only one I've seen, 1897, from St. Louis.

I love the address, just a name and general location.

Yup, I found that the most interesting too. Nothing to see here, just mailing something to Addie.

Here are four different envelopes:

1. 1888 Goodwin & Company--plain back
2a. 1887 Goodwin & Company --front
b. ". ". " ---ornate back
3/4. Two different envelopes used to mail out Old Judge cabinets

Nice ones, Jay. Here is one from E107 I used to own..

http://luckeycards.com/poenvelopebreisch1893.jpg

Ornate Goodwin envelope, same as Jay's but dated March 15 & 17 1890 (just before ATC merger). I believe this letter helped spread the word that baseball card production was about to cease, get your NL/PL cards while they last :)

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=26627

Leon-great envelope.

Joe-Your envelope completes the stamp color set with mine.

That ornate back Old Judge envelope is sweet.

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I have a few Ginter's to add. I'll edit them in here. Those OJ's are BEAUTIES! Sold my only OJ example long ago. Nice French address Allen and Ginter cover on the Bay for about 5x what I figure to be the actual value of one of these. In any event they are all SCARCE to say the least.

BTW to the OP - these "covers" have a hobby niche of their own. The graphics can at times be spectacular. Some of the civil war ones come to mind. Advertising covers came later. I like yours as not often you see a baseball graphic and it's for a hardware store - neat :-)

I thought the AL was founded in 1901?

Thanks the compliment - I thought it was neat too. I was looking for the 1939 baseball centennial covers a few years ago and this came up in an eBay search. I didn't have anything pre-1900, and so I snatched this up.

I have seen a lot of covers that are caches, like the 1939 caches. And I had seen other covers that are expanded return labels - like some of the ones pictured above. But the full on advertising was something new to me. The OJ ads are spectacular. I didn't know those existed.

Here are two letters from the mid-1870s sent by Andrew Peck (of Peck & Snyder) to a friend. I have also shown the envelopes, one of which was ornate.

Can 20th Century covers join the party?

Dan-Those are beauties, well within the margin for error.

Here are a few 19th century advertising letters but without the envelopes.

I've included the "card related" Duke letter
 

with envelope - despite the lack of graphics and three Ginter covers - the primitive one my favorite of the iconographic old planter.

Not the flashiest ones, one baseball related, another football.

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=26628

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