1911 Baseball Snapshots Strip Card Ad Find

[ullmandds]

that is awesome...very cool! i believe the set is limited to the designs of e93/94/97/98...they may have had loftier goals for the set they never were able to realize.

[jeffshep]

Thanks for the comments everyone! So if that case contained 72 boxes at 4 cards a piece, that would equal 288 cards plus the 14 on the exterior box (maybe they were printed on the reverse as well?). 302 cards per case regardless, but so small, no wonder they're rarities. It's plausible that all 250 subjects existed at one time. Also, perhaps the ad being February of 1911 was meant to spawn future sales for the 1911 baseball season...and with the delay in publishing, this was probably put together around Christmas/Jan.1st of the new year, possibly earlier.

[deadballfreaK]

Ugh. My best friend's great grandpa ran a general store during the great card era. The store was apparently crammed with antique stuff and the sons just bulldozed it and burned it all to clear ground for farming maybe 20 years ago. The few items that remain just make me wonder what was lost.

[phlflyer1]

Wow,

Sorry to dig up an old post but I haven't been on the board too much until the past few weeks or so.

Thanks to the OP who posted the images of the W555 advertising piece. It pretty much confirmed the questions/theories that we had about a W555 strip back in this old thread from 2007.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=86586

Interesting that the players from the W555 strip shown in the 2007 thread aren't shown in the advertisement pictures but I'm sure that they would be found on the reverse side of the large box pictured in the ad.