1910 Punch Cuban Baseball cards- origination?

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by aljurgela

Leon....

If you read the back, they infer that they were issued in cigarette packs.

Thanks to Patrick for helping me to cross this one off my list... as with Matt's, you can see the back where (not as clearly as Matt's, it mentions the the cigars):

Holy $hit! Awesome card!!! That's one helluva card to cross off the list!

Congrats Al!!

[sbfinley]

That's amazing.

[aljurgela]

For clarity, the back says: “Smoking these cigarettes you can collect baseball players and, once acquired (as full set), you can come by Manrique 118 (an address) and you will be given (a prize) of a complete album”

This was quite a common practice in Latin America. I have never seen the aforementioned album, but have seen some alleged photocopied pages.

Thanks for the compliments on the card guys. My blood pressure was elevated when we finalized the transaction. This is now my most valuable card.

[canjond]

I posted this on the cigarette pack thread a few months ago, but I'm not sure it got a ton of views. In any event, after a few years of searching, I was able to track this down, which I believe may be (is likely to be) associated with the cards. This unopened pack came out of Cuba and has a full 1912 tax stamp. In addition, the "punch" name is offset by quotations - just like the cards. The size of the packaging width is also spot on to that of the cards.

I'd love to hear the thoughts of others, including the Cuban experts.

[autocentral]

I believe they definitely came out of a pack setting. There is an album that exists with these cards as perviously stated. Beautiful cards and extremely scarce especially with the punch back as most were pasted to cardboard.

Checklist in alphabetical order:
-Barry
-Bender
-Cabanas
-Cabrera
-Casey
-Castillo
-Cobb
-Coombs
-Crawford
-Davis
-Derrick
-G. Gonzalez
-V. Gonzalez
-Hartsel
-Hernandez
-Hidalgo
-Hill
-Johnson
-Jones
-Lapp
-Lloyd
-Lord
-Magrinat
-Marzans (Marsans)
-McInnis
-McIntyre
-Mendez
-Molina
-Moran
-Moriarty
-Mullin
-Murphy
-O'Leary
-Padron
-Palomino
-Parpetti
-Pedroso
-Petway
-Pia
-Plank
-Roggers (Royer)
-Sanchez
-Schaefer
-Stanage
-Summers
-Thomas
-Valdes
-Viola
-Willetts

-Nick

[felada]

Are there known cards for all of the players listed above in the checklist?

[autocentral]

Originally Posted by felada

Are there known cards for all of the players listed above in the checklist?

All those mentioned above have known cards.

Nick

[Leon]

Originally Posted by canjond

I posted this on the cigarette pack thread a few months ago, but I'm not sure it got a ton of views. In any event, after a few years of searching, I was able to track this down, which I believe may be (is likely to be) associated with the cards. This unopened pack came out of Cuba and has a full 1912 tax stamp. In addition, the "punch" name is offset by quotations - just like the cards. The size of the packaging width is also spot on to that of the cards.

I'd love to hear the thoughts of others, including the Cuban experts.

Neat wrapper Jon!!

[Jeffrompa]

is there any definitive information for Cuban Tax stamps ?

[1880nonsports]

fantastic find!