Posted By:
bruce Dorskind
Kalamazoo Team Cabinets are exceedingly rare, indeed.
The first three we ever saw were in Sir Edward Wharton Tigar's London flat
back in 1978.
Two of those cards eventually were traded to Lew Lipset.
Our example, one of two known was from Wharton Tigar's collection, albeit
we added to our collection as the result of a complex purchase within the past
decade.
To the best our knowledge there are only 8 surviving examples
Boston- 2
Detroit 1
Athletics 2
Philadelphia 2
Pittsburgh (the rarest of the team cards) 1
Baltimore-we have never seen a KB team cabinet
There is one example in the Spalding collection at the New York Public Library. We believe
it was the Philadelphia team.
Sir Edward Wharton Tigar does describe these cards in the second edition of his
infamous book, "The World Tobacco Index" Said Index (in four parts) is must reading
for any serious historian of the hobby.
Bruce Dorskind
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