anyone want to talk the early modern period? 1909-1911!
 

writing a lot of essays about this period of industrial modernity and baseball cards as being really crucial cards that document the process of mass image production as it historically unfolded in real time. really powerful artifacts that go much deeper than just baseball and baseball history into media culture and art historical image revolution stuff.

would love to hear your thoughts and experiences with these early modern sets and your thoughts and feelings about them! favorite cards, sets, stories, all of it. lets chat!!

Since the T206 set falls into the 1909-1911 timeframe, there's so much information about just that one set. Which I'm a collector of that set since 2009. I'd recommend using the Advanced Search option, and search by member. Just to see what areas of knowledge has been mentioned about the T206 set. I would say to do a member search for (tedzan) and the posts he started, which there are nearly 500 of them. He was very knowledgeable on many of those early sets, especially the T206 set. Unfortunately Ted has passed on, and we all miss him very much. But I would say to start there, and then you can even search posts that I've (Ronnie73) commented on. I haven't started many threads, but I have shared my thoughts and information within many T206 threads that were started by others. When you think you have found a topic that you want to dig deeper into, then myself and some of the other advanced T206 collectors can chime in.

There are also other sets during that time period, such as T212 (Obak), T205 (Gold Border), T213-1 (Coupon), T3 (Turkey Red), T210 (Red Border Old Mill), E90 thru E105 (Multiple Set Brands), M116 (Sporting Life), and S74 (Silk's), are the more popular Baseball sets from the 1909-1911 timeframe.

There are even a few popular Non Baseball Sports Card sets. Such as C55 (Imperial Hockey), T220 (Boxing), T225 (Boxing), and T218 (Multi Sports), which are the most popular.

There are even a decent amount of Non-Sports Card sets from the same time period. Some of the more popular ones are T59 (Flags), T80 (Military), T58 (Fish), T42 (Birds), T37 (Automobile's), T77 (Lighthouse's), and T68 (Heroes of History).

And just when you thought there were so many very popular and often collected sets from the 1909-1911 time span, there's a large number of British and Asian sets that were also produced. None of these sets can really compete with the American Tobacco Company sets, which were listed before, with a few sets printed by other company's. But some of these British and Asian sets are more popular within their original release locations.

I hope this information will help you get started with some basic information, and help you narrow down your choices to a particular set that you want to dig deeper into.

hey ted! this is quite kind of you to give me some deep knowledge about the forum. i'll look up some of your musings and research.

my best regards; thank you,
david

Just to point out it was Ron who posted. Ted was the seasoned collector that passed away who frequented and contributed heavily to the board.

Brian