OT- Is this jockey with dog card a scrap?

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Posted By: T E

This came out of a 1880s scrap book. It is blank-backed. Is it considered a scrap card or is it more likely cut from a trade card?

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Posted By: leon

It looks like a scrap card....Many of the late 1800's scraps had this look....

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

those scraps are more typically like the Scraps baseball and R&S Artistic where they have kind of a glossy front. I have a bunch of presidents and musicians (Beethoven, etc.) like the BB scraps and they are all glossy. Otherwise, it might be cut from a trade card OR be part of one of the metamorphic trade or diecut trade cards. Still pretty cool.........I collect jockey stuff (since I'm in LOUISVILLE, KY).....

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Posted By: T E

and surface has same feel as a good t206.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

If it's little, it's fair to call it a scrap. As Tom notes, most scraps are embossed and glossy, but I don't think all have to be. There are bigger die-cuts, about the size of trade cards, many not glossy or embossed. These are in the same league with scraps, collected and pasted into albums like scraps. Collectors will often call the big ones die-cuts, but I'm sure some call them scraps. Scraps wasn't a brand name, but a nickname ("scrap of paper") for a type of usually little die-cut pieces that kids collected and often pasted into albums. If something's little, die cut, kid's themed and came from a 1880s album, that's almost the definition of a scrap.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

If it's blank backed it's most likely a scrap.

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Posted By: T E

Hopefully the next book I come up with will have baseball scraps!

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Posted By: fkw

handcut scrap