Can someone identify this card?

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Posted By: Steve M.

Measures 3" by 2". Copyrighted Bufford Boston. Thanks.

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Posted By: barrysloate

It's some kind of comic trade card, but not one I have seen before, so it must be pretty scarce. Bufford published a four card color set that is among the prettiest of all the baseball trade cards. But this black and white one is new to me.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Agree that it looks like an 1800s trade card. There were variety of captioned comic baseball trade cards in the 1800s. Also agree that yours isn't a commonly found example.

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Posted By: jims

This trade card is listed in Frank Keetz's book "Baseball Advertising trade cards" checklisted as single cards with titles. He lists it as a single card, "probably 1870s from uniform".

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Posted By: Steve M.

thanks for the info. I knew it would be here. 1870's, eh? That's nice.

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Posted By: Lyman

Steve, the card was originally printed with space at the bottom reserved for a sponsor's ad message. The full card measures approximately 4-3/8 x 2-5/8 inches. See example below.



Lyman

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Posted By: Steve M.

Looks like they had "trimming" issues even back in the 1870's.