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Posted By: ADamBaxter

Elliot,
I don't know a whole lot about this issue, but I hope I can be a little helpful. I know that Chicago, Detroit, and St.Louis are the teams in this set, I'm not sure if there's more. The years of issue were from 1887-1889. They were essentially used like trade cards with business names, etc. printed on one side. They're pretty scarce and I've only seen a couple pop up on Ebay and usually NOT in the pre-1930 card category. There is a write-up on them in Lipset's encyclopedia and there is an article with pictures by Jerry Spillman covering them in issue #1 of OldCardboard magazine. JC has few nice examples on display on his website as well.

Regards,
Adam