Oldest commercially produced baseball card?

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

We now have an Atlantics trade card in the current REA with a 126 Nassau Street address clearly visible on the reverse. This says that the trade card was issued post 1870, not in 1868. It is an image of the 1868 team that was issued later.

The 1871 NY Clipper Ad makes more sense now - rather than advertising current teams and 'leftovers', it was possibly advertising current teams, and some 'great' teams of the past;i.e-possibly issuing them for the first time, or they were issued sporadically over a 2-3 year period.