Uncatalogued Strip Cards?

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Does anyone recognize these cards at all or have ever seen anything like them? These were found in one of the baseball memorabilia boxes from the Richard Merkin Collection here at Hake's. They are printed on a thicker cardboard stock similar to candy boxes of the era and measure approximately 1-7/8"X1". Two of the players' U.S. careers ended in the early 1910's (Almeida & Street) and the other two (Simmons & Robinson) ran through the 1920's, seems odd to have players from two different era's in what appears to be the same card issue.

Any thoughts and/or opinions from board members would be most appreciated.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Look like Newspaper or Book (like Who's Who style books) cut outs mounted to cardboard.

[Vintagecatcher]

All four subjects were coaches after their playing days ended.

Patrick

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Scott:

I just took out the cards to check your theory closely. There is no way that these are mounted paper cut-outs. The print is on the cardboard.

[Butch7999]

Phil, there are a couple of differences in the graphic style between the images. The Street and Simmons cards
(if they are cards) have a larger font for their names, and have a "boxed" background (interior borders).
The Almeida and Robinson cards use a smaller font size and lack the interior border. So maybe they weren't
issued the same year (or decade). Not sure that means anything, since that would be one of each style
for the "1910s" cards and one of each for the "1920s." Sorry, just an observation...

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Good observation, I did notice that also. What has me puzzled though is the matching pairs have one player from each decade. Almeida and Street are the earlier pair with two different fonts and Simmons/Robinson are the later pair, also with two different fonts.