Boston Garter display

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Posted By: Ben

I agree with Leon and Millerhouse, this "card" glued within the frame is not the standard Boston Garter, you can tell by the tiny line of printing on the bottom border right under the picture. The ad piece from the ebay auction doesnt have it. Here's an image of the ad piece next to a genuine, untrimmed '12 Boston Garter Clarke (note extra line). Image courtesy of our very own David Rudd @ cycleback.com).



ramram, how can you not like these cards? I would rarely say this about baseball cards for the most part, but this set is the exception: they truly are "a work of art". Not only do you get a detailed and accurate depiction of the player en scene, but you also get a great sense of the setting, with the clubhouse in the foreground, a layer of baseball scene outside, and a skyline of an industrializing American city with the buildings and smoke stacks looming in the background. I think the overall quality of these cards stand out especially when compared with contemporaneous t and e card issues, where there is no comparison in terms of detail and imagination. I guess some dudes get uncomfortable seeing other dudes in their garters. I'm sure these guys didnt think twice about it back then


Millerhouse, I appreciate your posts and the info on these cards. I think this set, and this year of it in particular (1912), is a true relic in the universe of prewar cards. Someone must have written an article for VCBC for this set already, right? Here's a two card panel, as was mentioned earlier by millerhouse. Image also courtesy of David Rudd: