Finally went to the printing museum

[Leon]

That is a cool printing stone.
Here is an early hockey trade card (below), circa 1880s... H820 in the ACC.....

Originally Posted by samosa4u

This is the one area in vintage card collecting that most people don't understand, and yet, it's so important. If you're gonna' spend shit-loads of money on vintage cards, then at least have an idea as to how they were made, right ??

Now, the first-ever hockey cards to be released in Canada were the C56's. These were made using stone lithography, which is a very complicated time-consuming process. One of the printing stones that was used in making these cards was recently discovered:



Because these C56 cards were released around the same time as the T206's, I always assumed that both sets were made the same way.