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Posted By: identify7

The item in question here is a postcard. By definition: it is a card. It depicts a baseball subject, therefore, it is a baseball card.

No need to make this complicated.

Now my baseball card collection does not include coins, stamps, decals, blankets, felts, scratch-offs, photo inserts, playing cards, game cards, nor matchbook covers; but it does include: premiums, box panels (and it could include postcards and maybe even game cards, or worse stuff).

As far as "but NOBODY would even DARE consider a 2005 Post Card showing Chipper Jones on the front to be a "real baseball card." I DARE.

And "If this Gibson item had been produced in 1881 when there really weren't very many real baseball cards and in the day when Cabinet sized photos were all we had... then I might (might) feel differently".

IMHO each card stands on its own merits, independent of what else exists.

Regarding: "As far as the Gibson postcard goes, someone would have to convince me that it was or probably was a commercial product before I considered it a baseball card". A postcard is a commercial product by design.


CWYWC

And we each can have our own definitions.