Deadball Postcard Bonanza Share Thread!

[sacentaur]

Originally Posted by Leon

I always like this one..

What a piece of history, and interesting on multiple levels- love it!

[bigfanNY]

1905 Philadelphia Athletics. Postmarked on October 10th 1905. The day After Game one of the World Series where Matty pitched the first of his 3 complete game shutouts vs the A's. With Eddie Plank giving up 3 runs in the loss.

[Exhibitman]

Billy Taub was an O.G. celebrity athlete star f***er of the first order. He put out a series of postcards in the early 1930s including this one with Ruth:



Rodine, early 1950s:



A premium but the same art:


Some signed:





Boxing does have some astounding PCs. Among my favorites:

As far as I can tell, this is the first boxing PC:



Jack Dempsey from Japan, promoting his serial "Daredevil Jack":




Interesting Cuban promotional PC signed from HOFer Kid Chocolate written to HOF broadcaster/promoter Cuco Conde



The Brown Bomber:



The Rock, pre-1951 PC



Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee:



No list would be complete for me w/o an Adam Hats. Billy Conn, PC and premium:

[sbfinley]

Picked up this 1907 Tecumseh PC with a young Fred Merkle in Sterling last night.

[Vintagedeputy]

Forgot that I had this one also. That’s Packy McFarland (of the T218 tobacco card set fame). I was hoping to have SGC encapsulate it but they were not able to determine who actually manufactured the postcard and the Knights of Columbus has no record either.

[Vintagedeputy]

Found this today at a flea market for $1.00!!!