1922 V89 Paterson cards - show us your stuff

[brianp-beme]

Show off your rarely seen V89 (which of course means, 'Hello, I'm from Canada') Paterson cards. These aren't mine, but I saved the images of the below six cards because they are not seen on the TCDB website, and their Ebay listings are set to disappear into the internet ether in a few days. Edited to add the new Pipp image just posted.

By the way, the additional cards not seen on the TCDB site are:

Schang
Shawkey
Jones
Bob Meusel



Brian

[Leon]

a few..

[ValKehl]

I wish Sam Rice was in this set.

[BuzzD]

Here is McNally. His bio doesn't reference his using Joe, his middle name being Joseph. Nickname was "Minooka Mike".

[bxb]

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1720608943

[therajah]

WmPaterson Cobb.jpg

WmPaterson Hornsby.jpg

WmPatersonAlexander.jpg

[ghostmarcelle]

Fordham Flash

[riggs336]

This one's at PSA getting its "A".

[paul]

Here are Frisch and Speaker.

[samosa4u]

Ah, good ol' Willy Pattys!!

Not baseball, but these used to be mine.

[IMAXMAX]

a great,tough set IMHO,,,here's mine, purchased from Luke some moons ago:

[Cubanball]

My Luque

[Spike]

The Bullet Joe from my #5 type collection.

[Balticfox]

Yes Paterson's! William Paterson was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1839 and moved to Brantford at the age of fifteen where he immediately commenced working as a clerk in a general store.

George Winter opened Brantford’s first biscuit and confectionery business downtown on Colborne Street in June of 1856. William Paterson partnered up with Henry Leeming to buy the business in 1860. When Leeming left the enterprise to become a customs collector in 1873, Paterson became the sole owner. Paterson's business grew and prospered and he soon became known as Brantford's candy man. By the 1920's about 100,000 pounds of candy including chocolate were produced each day and the factory stretched from Colborne Street to Dalhousie Street:



A set of 50 Baseball cards was issued with Paterson's chocolate bars in 1922:

(Not mine.)

While I have little to no interest in the early Baseball cards issued by American cigarette/tobacco companies, I find the idea of acquiring a star or three - e.g. Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Rogers Hornsby, Grover Alexander, Walter Johnson - from a Canadian confectionery a mere hour's drive from my hometown of London rather appealing!

William Paterson was also the first company to issue Hockey cards for kids with a 40 card set of the four NHL teams - Ottawa Senators, Montréal Canadiens, Toronto St. Patricks and Hamilton Tigers - in 1923-24:

(Not mine.)



Paterson then released a 60 card set in 1924-25 when the Montréal Maroons and Boston Bruins joined the NHL.

George Weston Ltd. of Toronto bought William Paterson Limited in 1927. But chocolates and other candy continued being made at the plant until May of 1975 when operations sadly ceased.

[tonyo]

Wow, great cards everyone and thanks for the color Mr Fox.

almost makes me want to crank up my pre war type collection again.

[pete zouras]

Pipp

[h2oya311]

I used to own a Travis Jackson. I really, REALLY need to find a new one!

[brianp-beme]

Nice to see this thread revived. And thanks Pete for providing another V89 card image (Pipp) not previously seen. I have resized it to be approximately the same image size as seen for the cards in the original post, and added it to that post as well.

Brian

[Balticfox]

I'm guessing this Paterson issue from 1922 can't be the first kid friendly baseball card issue. Can anyone tell me the identity of the first "national" baseball card release in a kid friendly product?

[paul]

I'm not sure about nationally issued, but E223 G&B Chewing Gum cards were certainly issued with a kid friendly product.

[Chesbro41]

Pennock

[therajah]

WmPatersonSpeaker.jpg