Several questions about 19th century baseball cards & collectibles

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Originally Posted by mouschi

I have watched a few youtube videos of a guy going through some albums. So fun to see that stuff. It is funny to think about a person nowadays collecting modern advertisements for cough syrup, rope, etc.

I collect trade cards and have probably 10,000 different in my collection. (Haven't counted them lately.) I also have some intact albums from the period, mainly to show how many of those cards were preserved. Victorian albums like that typically go for a couple hundred dollars on eBay, depending on what they contain. Some of the cards are pretty amazing, both in terms of their graphics and the ad copy on them.