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Posted By: Rhys

I was not really planning on doing a "What are these" thread with the Baltimore cards and was planning on bringing them to the National and having a few guys I know look at these to give me their opinion. I know they are not home made by some kid with glue in 1898 because I soaked them out of a scrapbook myself and if they had been done with water soluable glue by some kid in 1898 they would have seperated. They are about the size of 1911 zeenut cards and about as thick as a traditional baseball card, blank backed. The front looks like a pretty low quality strip card. I have no idea what they are, how they were made etc. All I know is that they were glued inside an 1894 Toilet Salesmans sample book that was converted to a scrapbook with clippings and boxscores as well as program cutouts etc of the Baltimore Baseball team. Although it is hard to tell due to the scans but each player is identified at the bottom inside the border of the card and these were obviously hand cut. They were either cut from some type of larger composite, or were an early strip card type issue. I believe I have the whole team but manager Hanlon is not present, either I am missing him or he was never issued.

Rhys