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New or Old1) If I own the card that is being debated as one of the first baseball cards then it is "one of the first baseball cards."
2) If I want to buy the card that is being debated as one of the first baseball cards then it's not a baseball card, merely a piece of card board with a baseball image on it.
3) If I buy the card that is being debated as one of the first baseball cards then refer to number 1.
If you're looking at this particular object and wondering what it is then it's obvious that it's a regular CDV that happens to show a (drawn) picture of a baseball game and none of the players are recognizeable. This CDV is affixed to an advertisement that even claims to have books on the sport. By the way, what are the earliest known books on the subject of baseball?
JDF