Real "Cards" & Your Thoughts!!!!

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Posted By: PC

When calling something a "baseball card", size, shape, material (cardboard) and intent (to me, meant to be collected) matters. Playing cards, business cards, baseball cards -- we all know that a card fits within a certain size range, and has a certain shape. I would call Ty Cobb's car dealership business card a "card", but not a baseball card.

Zeenuts = cards.

Strip cards = cards. If they are still attached as a strip, they are a strip of cards. Similarly, a full sheet is not a card, but it is a sheet full of individual cards.

Postcards and exhibits = to me, these are types of cards, but they are a little big and many postcards were not produced to be collected (they were produced to be mailed), so this is a tough call. I have a bunch of exhibits. I like to call them exhibits, and when asked, I explain they are like postcards.

Silks and pennants = not cards. If these are cards, then hats and jerseys can be cards too.

Colgans = also a little difficult to call these cards -- if they are cards then pins can be cards too.

Premiums and supplements -- many of the R series premiums are more like photos than cards. Butterfingers are printed on stock only slightly sturdier than newspapers. Dixie Lid premiums come punched and were meant to be put in binders. Kashins are very "card like", in the way an exhibit is sort of a card. I have many of these premiums, but I would not call any of them cards, and I don't want to call them cards. I'd call them photos, or even posters, before calling them cards.

I have a bunch of 1930's Wheaties cereal box cutouts. They were meant to be cutout and collected, but they are not cards (too big). When asked, I explain that they were cut from cereal boxes and collected like cards.

Cards cut from boxes -- I suppose the smaller blank-backed notebook and box cutouts are cards, in the same way the 50s Wheaties, 60s Bazooka, 60s Post, and 70s Hostess panels are cards. If they are "card sized" (whatever that is) and were meant to be cut-out and collected, then in my book it's a card. (Maybe the notebook cards don't qualify, because they were not meant to be cutout?)

But call them what you want to call them -- if Rose postcards and Colgans are cards, then great. I can be convinced.