January 2013 pickups

[CarltonHendricks]

Brian, Very cool diecut….a very idealistic depiction of a trolley….I know someone who’s very into Victorian and has a framed one of these on his wall….That trolley car is so fun looking I’d definitely want to ride up on the top level.…I like the spiral stairs to the top..and the wood slat bench….They need to bring those back horses and all!

I can’t make out all the signage….Visible is “Base Ball Match This Afternoon - Polo Grounds - New York vs. Cleveland”..and along the top “Central Park To”…and I can make out the word “High” along the bottom but it’s blurred after that….Wow…”no smoking”…very pc!

What’s interesting is I searched on the web for surviving horse drawn double decker trolley cars and I started noticing all the images I found were of English ones…I believe most if not all the Victorian die cuts were produced in Europe, I think mainly Germany and England. Maybe New York City had double-decker trolley cars…but maybe not and the card was made in England or Germany for the American market…which was very common in the day. I recall two stories I’ve written involving Victorian die cuts in which I picked up a little on the subject…”Freddy’s Football”…and one on an 1890’s football player die cut. Two German companies who may have produced a die cut like this trolley would have been Ernest Nister and the other being Raphael Tuck and Sons.

http://www.sportsantiques.com/1890FB...723859090/6489

http://www.sportsantiques.com/Freddy...1st%202009.htm

Below are most of the images I could find of horse drawn double decker trolley cars…and they’re all English!