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Posted By: davidcycleback

Unless it has advertising on it or it is known to have been offered commercially to the general public (premium, suppliment, sold in store, etc), a CDV or cabinet card is not catalogued as a trading card ... In the 1800s, some CDVs and cabinets of famous people (Abe Lincoln, Queen Victoria, actresses) were made for and sold to the public. Mathew Brady and Napoleon Sarony were two well known photographers who sold CDVs directly to the public. Bur for most baseball team cabinets, it's impossible to know and not worth worrying about.