I love "Marked" vintage cards

[Chuck9788]

I really admire the history behind vintage marked cards.

What are your overall feelings & views of old school cards that have been marked by their early owners?

[G1911]

I pay neither more nor less for them. It’s ‘honest wear’ to me, I don’t mind an old time owners stamp at all. I think it’s pretty cool some people try to piece back together a particular individuals cards and collect a certain backstamp.

Maybe I’ll stamp all mine before I die.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Chuck9788

I really admire the history behind vintage marked cards.

What are your overall feelings & views of old school cards that have been marked by their early owners?

Agree, think they are cool and definitely of value to true collectors/hobbyists. Same sort of concept when people seem to pay a premium for say graded cards that are noted as being from someone's prominent collection, like Lionel Carter, or from a known event/find, like the Black Swamp find from a few years back. Don't have many, but a few backed-stamped/marked cards in my collection, along with a couple from Lionel Carter's collection as well, I think.

Hopefully our resident Howe's Hunter will chime in about the Howe McCormick back-stamped cards he actively searches for throughout the hobby. Great story and collection effort on his part.

[ullmandds]

someone took care in adding player names to a bunch of 1907 dietsche postcards...I only kept the cobb.

[tkd]

I prefer cards with no markings on them but if it's a card I want that happens to be marked I enjoy a good story behind it. For example in 2014 Heritage auctioned a set or near set of 1916 sporting news cards that had writing on them. The original owner as a youngster brought the cards to games and wrote the player stats on the cards.

[Tom S.]

I'm amazed that someone was able to guess the SGC grade on this card over 100 years ago

[RCMcKenzie]

Nice card, Tom. I'm thinking the dealer wanted $20, probably like in 1996.

[Casey2296]

If you're into back stamps, long time member Andy Huntoon has built an amazing back stamp project website. Super fun to look at, here's the link:

https://thegreatt206backstampproject.yolasite.com/

[zoidberg]

In my early days of collecting I got these three with a "PB White" stamp.
Not knowing much, I thought they were just part of the Piedmont advertisement.

PB, if you're still alive I have your cards!!

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

I also kind of like old cards with markings...particularly if it looks like a kid was writing on it. Reminds me of the true origins of these cards and I like to imagine kids holding their cards, listening to their favorite players playing on the radio or reading about them in the newspaper. Very nostalgic.

But I have my limits. Here's a w517 Ruth card (not my card, image from ebay) that has kid writing, but it references 1983. Even though it appears a kid wrote on it, it's likely this card was written on during the 80's...so to me now it appears less desirable. If he had written 1933 instead of 1983, I would consider it much more desirable because I never would have known it was "modern" writing. It's funny how our mental perspective of cards can change their perceived value.

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[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Here's another post dated script (also not my card, image from ebay).

Not sure when it was written on, but likely 1939 or later.

Again, I mentally dislike knowing the card was written on AFTER Ruth was done playing.

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[pete zouras]

especially if it's from the period

[Chuck9788]

Originally Posted by zoidberg

In my early days of collecting I got these three with a "PB White" stamp.

PB, if you're still alive I have your cards!!

I wonder if this man (link below) was the PB White (1907-1995) that you are looking for?

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107044117/p-b-white

[edhans]

Up to 25 W516-1 "Becker" backs. I still have not laid eyes on a Ring or Kauf. I would probably pay just to view one of those.

[T206Collector]

Signed by Leifield, stamped by Burdick:

[CobbSpikedMe]

Originally Posted by edhans

Up to 25 W516-1 "Becker" backs. I still have not laid eyes on a Ring or Kauf. I would probably pay just to view one of those.

Wow Ed, 25 now! That's impressive. Here is my grouping of the Becker/Prize backs. I love these things. And I have yet to see a Ring or Kauf as well. I'm secretly hoping to find one of them before you do so I can shock you one day.



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[ZenPop]

Originally Posted by Chuck9788

I really admire the history behind vintage marked cards.

What are your overall feelings & views of old school cards that have been marked by their early owners?

LOVE the topic... and I ADORE marked up cards...

My all-time favorite card:

[7nohitter]

I'd love to get one of the F. Scott Fitzgerald stamped cards.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Awesome thread. I appreciate marks and back stamps. I think I've seen this "RR" somewhere else...anyone recognize it? -Matthew

[BioCRN]

Since there's a lot of back-stamp knowledge here, anyone recognize this one? It's an incomplete stamp, so it's a bit hard to figure out. It's on an E96 Philadelphia Caramel.

I realize that some stamps are just someone testing a stamp on some scrap paper, but I was wondering if anyone else had seen this one.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by BioCRN

Since there's a lot of back-stamp knowledge here, anyone recognize this one? It's an incomplete stamp, so it's a bit hard to figure out. It's on an E96 Philadelphia Caramel.

I realize that some stamps are just someone testing a stamp on some scrap paper, but I was wondering if anyone else had seen this one.

Send a message to Andy Huntoon, he's our resident back stamp expert, username CobbSpikedMe. Take a look at his back stamp archive too its a lot of fun. https://thegreatt206backstampproject.yolasite.com/

[Leon]

I enjoyed looking at the stamps, It gives some variety.

Love me some Ty Corn On The Cobb

[Jobu]

When I lived in New Orleans (starting 1 year before Katrina) I biked past the house several times per week for a decade. I collect New Orleans cards because of how much I enjoyed my 10 years there, so to see an address that I knew written on the back was pretty fun.

Eva Reach wrote her name and address, 1036 Joseph Street, on the back.

I contacted the Historic New Orleans Collection to ask for leads on Ms. Reach and was blown away by how much Heather sent me: phone books, census records, and more. It turns out that Eva, who was 7 years old in 1910, moved to 1036 Joseph Street in 1910, where she lived until 1916. Those dates dovetail nicely with the 1911-1916 dates for T216.

Eva's father, Edward Reach, was the chief clerk for Schut & Kiehn, a lumber exporter in New Orleans and also a member of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias.

In 1931, Eva married Leonard E. Franseen in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and they went on to have two sons, Leonard and Richard. The family moved to New Orleans and then to Dallas, where Eva’s husband passed away in 1957. Eva died in New Orleans on July 12, 1962.

[John1941]

Jobu, that's a really cool story.

[BioCRN]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Send a message to Andy Huntoon, he's our resident back stamp expert, username CobbSpikedMe. Take a look at his back stamp archive too its a lot of fun. https://thegreatt206backstampproject.yolasite.com/

Thanks Casey2296 and to Andy for getting back to me.

He wasn't familiar and others I've shown it to haven't seen it, either. It most likely was someone playing with a stamp, which isn't unheard of.

[Leon]

Connie, apparently, smoking a stogie.

[brianp-beme]

For the Black Sox players, Mr. Comiskey was a marked man.

Brian

[Kevin]

Curious - I ve had this card since the 80s before he passed away.

https://imgur.com/a/woTMWSh

[jimq16415]

This one was cheap maybe because it's kind of morbid.

[Beercan collector]

still wonder about

Burton H Brooks
Rt 1
Bellevue , Mich

I would think He has some nice cards out there

[fkm_bky]

I don't mind them at all...especially if marked on the back and that the marking is at least relatively from the same production time period. Still looking for one marked by F Scott Fitzgerald to add though.

Bill