Vintage Die-cut Questions

[aelefson]

Hi-
I recently acquired the die-cut baseball players scanned below at a flea market and I have several questions regarding them. They are blank backed. They were in a scrapbook filled with other blank backed Victorian era scraps, and these came off perfectly with no soaking needed. The Chicago players were on both sides of one page and the other team was on the second page. The New York image scroll was on the second page, and each page also had the manager type person with the cane. Here are my questions.

1. What are these from? They look very familiar to me. Did they come from a game? Or, were these designed for scrapbook pasting (like the R&S series, et al)? Something else?
2. What approximate year are they from? My guess was 1905-1910, but I could be off.
3. Is the red uniform team supposed to be NY? Were there other teams produced?

I would really appreciate any additional information regarding these.
Thanks in advance,
Alan Elefson
aelefson@hotmail.com

[bcbgcbrcb]

I would say 19th Century for sure, otherwise never seen anything like them before.

[Butch7999]

We've seen these attributed to McLoughlin Brothers, circa 1890, but we haven't yet been able to verify that
nor to associate them with any of the many McLoughlin tabletop baseball games of the era.
McLoughlin made loads of paper toys (and children's books) in addition to their well-known boardgames.

[aelefson]

Thanks Butch and Phil! I really appreciate the help.
Alan

[T205 GB]

alan how tall are the players?

[Butch7999]

Alan, we've seen so many different games over the years that sometimes we forget what we've looked at.
And sometimes we're just inexcusably lazy in our research.

Thanks for getting us off our keesters and prompting us to take a closer look at our McLoughlin files.

Again, we haven't seen these die-cuts actually included with any McLoughlin game -- but as far as we can tell without being hands-on,
the artwork of your die-cut player-figures is identical (except for color) to the players illustrated on the playing field
of McLoughlin's circa 1892 Base Ball Game.

So unless our eyes deceive us, we can say that your die-cuts are in fact definitely a McLoughlin product.
Whether they (and the game itself) date to precisely 1892 or a few years earlier or later we don't yet know.