O/T Vintage Non-Sports Cards

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Posted By: Anonymous

PRICELESS! Sorry about the size.

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Posted By: Ray

Hey! That's a SPORT card!

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Posted By: Anonymous

But it's amateur.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Jockeys from the late 19th Century

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

your military card is a T80.....50 cards in the set. Individual cards aren't particularly difficult to find. Don't know much about any rarities.....

ACC lists backs with Tolstoi(most common I think), Uzit, Lenox, Cairo Monopol, Old Mill, etc. Can't remember the last time I saw one with something other than than a Tolstoi.

Maybe someone else knows a little more than I.........

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Posted By: Richard Masson

Add my name to the list of non-sports collectors. I would venture to say that there are a fair number of such collectors on this board already.

The other publication to mention is something called the Non-Sports Bible, or NSB.
It is supposed to be as comprehensive as the Mitchell book and the SportAmericana
book combined. We'll see because it hasn't been published yet. There is an ad for pre-publication ordering in ever issue of The Wrapper.

Does anyone know where this stands in terms of being published? It was supposed to come out earlier this summer.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Non-sports stuff, how does this happen. I guess it's like drugs, you take a few and then the next thing you know, you're hooked! If you can't find your drug of choice you go through withdrawls and start using other things...

ebays the pusher, collecting's the habit and we are the abusers...

I picked up a whole set of those 48-49 Leaf Pirates, all the same condition as the one posted, I don't what possessed me to do it, I just did it. I bought the whole set and 17 extras that were encapsulated in PSA8 holders... I wish they were baseball players...

The other stuff is just odds and ends that I saw and purchased because the stuff looked neat:

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Posted By: Anonymous

Fred, I have one of those little "Life Of _________" books. Mine is John Greenleaf Whittier. They were distributed by Duke's Cigarettes. Are there any baseball card issues distributed by any of the Duke companies? I wonder if that was the Duke family of the Carolina's (Duke University, etc.) That would make sense.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

I believe that the books are cataloged as N79s. There are 50 different, no baseball players of which I am aware.

Duke did put out the N88 Terrors of America set which is a sports themed set of cartoon drawings of kids playing sports. The N136 Duke Terrors of America set has the same cards as the N88 set but the cards are superimposed on a colorful background. It kind of reminds me of the N43 set where A&G placed the N29 cards on a colorful background.

Duke also put out the N135 Talk of the Diamond set but no players were identified or mentioned. Duke put out a lot of interesting non-sport material, I think the most interesting for baseball collectors is the N154 Presidential BB Club set with the heads of Cleveland, McKinley or Harrison superimposed into a picture that has the bodies of players in uniform.

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Posted By: matt

I know about T80's. I have all the back variations and am 5 short from a full set. The Tolstoi's are by far the most common back followed by Lenox, Uzit, Old Mill and Cairo Monopol. It's a pretty neat little set since they Have the same factory #s as T206's.

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Posted By: Bill Todd

I know from reading here that the AB box was smaller, so the cards are narrower. I came across a non-sport lot, with some duplication between AB backs and others. The fronts of the ABs look just like the other brands except without borders (or very narrow ones).

For example, one of the types in this lot has gold trim around the image, then a white border. On the ABs the edge of the card comes in to the gold border. Is this right? (Oh, and these cards are shorter, too. OK?)

Bill

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Posted By: Paul Stratton

The grouping of Generals did pretty well on ebay yesterday. I bid on about 20 of them and didn't win a single one. Somebody sell me a Jeb Stuart!

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Posted By: runscott

I will use this "OT Thread" to ask a question that has been bugging me for years: When I was a kid in the 1960's, we used to get cereal boxes that had a 'card' on the back that took up the entire back of the box - they were Indian chiefs, etc., and had ornate borders around them if I remember correctly. We cut them out and collected them.

Does anyone else remember these?