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Posted By: davidcycleback

1800s scraps include lots of little girly stuff-- flowers, princess and princesses, ballerinas, kittens, etc. Scraps (lower case, one p) is a generic name for wide vareity of little punch-out die cuts. The Scrapps (2 ps) baseball players is only a small subset. The R & S Artistic Series baseball die cuts are examples of scraps (lower case, 1 p).

Scraps were invented in Germany as decorations for cakes. They later evolved into items to be collected on their own. The designs of the early ones had to be sciccors cut by the kid. The later ones were pre-die cut. Most of the later ones are embossed.