Let's see some postcards

[seattlerainiers]

These came from the estate of player who participated in this 1910 game umpired by Billy Sunday in Bellingham, WA. Love the scoreboard tower...and the horse!

[MacDice]

Love the Bellingham postcards. Spent a lot of time watching games up there

[seattlerainiers]

Picked up a collection of signed HOF plaque PCs, and it included a handful of nice black and whites:

[joeadcock]

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[bbpostcards]

1. 1871 Chicago White Stockings (1910 - Lew Lipset has the only other copy I've seen on his current on-line sales list)
2. 1889 Indianapolis Hoosiers (c. 1940)
3. 1889 Brooklyn Bridegrooms (c. 1940)
4. 1889 Washington Nationals (c. 1940)
5. 1894 Baltimore Orioles (c. 1907)

[FrankWakefield]

Comments on what the set identification is on this postcard?

[Mikehealer]

Hi Frank
$ in Shield, I believe.

[FrankWakefield]

Correct you are, Mike.

I think the Crose Photo Company made these, and I think they are designated PC765. I could be wrong on those. I recall seeing an SGC graded $inShield, and I thought the slip had PC765 on it.

[Bicem]

It's not Crose, it's Suhling Publishing.

There's is no PC designation. And I've seen SGC label these many different and inconsistent ways, except the correct one as Suhling Publishing of course.

[Bicem]

[FrankWakefield]

Maybe a few folks with $inShield graded can post so we can see the slips...

These folks said Crose. I don't know...

http://www.vintageball.com/Crose.html

[Bicem]

Robert knows it's not Crose, he just needs to update his site. Crose was wrongly used in some guide years ago, that's where the mistaken id comes from.

SGC has no clue, the flips don't matter.

[joeadcock]

Here is same postcard per SGC. No ID
However, Jeff is correct. It is Suhling.

[Runscott]

Fresh arrival:

[FrankWakefield]

Thank you both, Joe and Jeff. I think that PC765 isn't right, either. I think that's for the Dietsche postcards.

Maybe if we could get it right then the slabbing companies could figure it out.

[porkchops]

Only 3 in my collection
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[Bicem]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Maybe if we could get it right then the slabbing companies could figure it out.

You would think, all they need to do is look at the back that I posted that links Suhling and the $-Shield logo. Most are labeled 1908 Cubs/White Sox postcard.

[Vintagecatcher]

Thrilled to have this George Gibson The Rose Company Postcard that arrived today.


Patrick

[Exhibitman]

This postcard depicting Lefty O'Doul and Japanese HOF manager Shunichi Amachi has a commemorative postmark dated 11/7/51 from Narumi Stadium, where the Seals played that day.



First one of these I've ever seen:



Ditto:

[VintageBall]

Hi all,

Jeff Prizner is correct. Suhling made the $-in-shield cards. I changed this info on VintageBall's 1909-1914 Player Postcards page in 2011 back when Jeff pointed out the error in the old Mashburn postcard guidebook.

However, I wasn't able to change the actual page of these postcards because the file got corrupted and any updates I made would delete the entire page!

I finally went ahead and re-built the page today (www.vintageball.com/suhling.html) and updated the old page (www.vintageball.com/crose.html), as well.

I still need to add some more of the actual cards, but will do that at some point in the future...

Robert S

[FrankWakefield]

Babe Adams and Marty O'Toole in Hot Springs Arkansas for spring training, 1913

[BeanTown]

Have not seen this one ever auctioned off.

[Bicem]

Pretty cool, does it fold out revealing more players?

[h2oya311]

sweet postcard!!! I have only seen one other (or is it the same one) in the 1991 Sotheby's Copeland auction catalog. Very sweet indeed!

[sayhey24]

That Boston postcard is amazing. Just picked up this one.

Greg

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by Bicem

Pretty cool, does it fold out revealing more players?

Yes, it shows the entire team and the pink ribbon is factory too... Reminds me of the A35 round album where ancy ribbons are attached. Behind the flaps are a group photos of 18 team members arrange on both sides of a nine panel accordian strip.

[jb217676]

Got a BUNCH of postcards today...

• 1908 Detroit Tigers Postcard (Image is hand drawn by the sender, a true one-of-a-kind postcard!)
• 1913 Frederic Schutz Real Photo Postcard of Walter Johnson (Thanks Jeff!)
• 1914-15 Boston Braves Team Postcard that includes Rabbit Maranville & Johnny Evers
• 1933 Real Photo Postcard of Roland Styles (George Burke stamp on reverse)
• 1935 Greenfield's Cafeteria and Coffee Shop Detroit Tigers Team Postcard

[BeanTown]

Great PCs Jeff... Where do you come up with all those unique items! Walter Johnson is my fav of your bunch you posted.

[freakhappy]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Great PCs Jeff... Where do you come up with all those unique items! Walter Johnson is my fav of your bunch you posted.

+1

I would love to be able to go back and watch a game that was played a century ago. Just looking at that postcard, you can only imagine the intricacies of the way they played, etc,. and also really appreciate the pioneers of the game.


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[BeanTown]

1909 DONIE BUSH DETROIT TIGERS BASEBALL TEAM REAL PHOTO POSTCARD RPPC DIETSCHE Type 3. Postally used in 1910.

[bbpostcards]

A near set of these can be seen via the link below if you're interested in additional cards and variations.

[jb217676]

Here's a C.1908 Real Photo Postcard of Andy Oyler. Little Andy Oyler is famous for hitting the shortest (and muddiest) home run in baseball history (24 inches) on August 2, 1904 while playing for the Minneapolis Millers

[BeanTown]

Jeff, whats the story behind the homerun? No errors on the play?

[jb217676]

Supposedly he hit the ball in the mud in front of home plate, nobody could find it, ran the bases and scored!

[seattlerainiers]

Postcard thread on the second page? Unacceptable.

Here's a cool series of 1911 Northwestern League Vancouver Beavers cards. Yes, that is a Beaver on the sweater.

West Coast baseball stalwart Norman "Kitty" Brashear in the car in the first PC, making a fist (I hope), with Jim Thorpe behind him.

JUST KIDDING re: Thorpe...relax

[h2oya311]

Very cool postcards! Thanks for sharing! And thanks for bringing this thread back to the front page (where it belongs)!!

[Exhibitman]

This Bob Fitzsimmons is the 3rd card ever to surface from The Stein Co.'s pre-1907 run of boxers. By far the best too, as he is a HOFer and the other two are of a journeyman and a contender. A forerunner of the Max Stein PCs.

[slidekellyslide]

An upgrade for me and with a schedule stamped onto the reverse side.

[Bicem]

Amazing clarity on the Vancouver card, love the sweater details.

[gnaz01]

Got this from a fellow board member

[bbpostcards]

These reach deep into baseball postcard history. Postal cards were a predecessor to postcards and private mailing cards. The 1875 Peck & Snyder is the earliest I know of with baseball content (two illustrations and ads down the right for balls, bats, uniforms). It was printed just two years after postal card use began in the United States in 1873.

The group of six that follows it below are from 1886, pertain to the Dover, New Jersey team arranging games with other local clubs - Roseville (Newark), Morristown, Hibernia (Rockaway Township), Hackettstown, and Rutherford - and are among the earliest of their kind.

The fold-out from 1888 is especially interesting. Addressed and stamped, it advertises Boston horse-shoeing businesses The Hub Force and The Back Bay Force and includes a clever baseball themed pitch under the heading, "Play Ball!" The interior has an 1888 National League schedule in red ink at the top with all the players and their positions at the bottom. Ads along the sides state that more schedules can be obtained from either business location.

[DixieBaseball]

Nash BBC

[aelefson]

I really like this thread! It is a great reminder of how many amazing postcards exist.

Below are five Buffalo Bison postcards I recently acquired. I like the poses especially George Detore's.

Alan

[ElCabron]

1936 Clowns.

[ElCabron]

1939 Clowns.

[ElCabron]

1943 Clowns.

[BeanTown]

Great postcards there Ryan!!! Those will never get old to look at!

[bbpostcards]

Pictured are two Kansas natives, Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators and Larry Cheney of the Chicago Cubs, both back in their home state in Coffeyville for Johnson-Cheney Day on October 30, 1913.

[tjb1952tjb]

Originally Posted by seattlerainiers

The Kelly/Leonard postcard came from George Kelly's estate many years ago. That's Kelly's writing on the front. I suspect it is from 1914-1915 because those are the only years that Kelly and Leonard were in the same league (Northwestern), and also because I acquired the two 1914 NWL team postcards below from the Kelly estate at the same time. Kelly is in the Victoria card (with Jacinto Calvo!), and Leonard is pictured with the Portland Colts.

Looks like Murray has his hat on backwards..........predates Griffey Jr. a bit, huh?

[Greenmonster]

Originally Posted by ElCabron

1936 Clowns.

Ryan...Great collection!