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Posted By: barrysloate

I still think that if you were a good customer and spent a lot of money with them it is likely that they would give them out free. If you walked in off the street just to come away with a picture of the Red Stockings, you had to pay for it. Also, Rhys found the ad in a guide that was only published for two years, 1870 and 1871. I don't know which of the two he had. And to respond to Hal's last post, I think it is accepted that both the Peck & Snyder trade cards and corresponding CdV's are as close as one could come to a collectible baseball card in 1870, and are generally considered a form of baseball card by collectors today. Not in the same vein as an Old Judge, but that's all there was at the time.