Cards As Art - Post Some (Pre or Post War)

[packs]

One of my favorite sets:




And my favorite pose of all time:

[GregMitch34]

Literally.

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1390315651

[ullmandds]

I'm not sure if I've ever seen that sporting life advertisement trade card?? Cool!!

[Paul S]

For me, these two are like walking through a mall and gawking at Starving Artist oils.; I realize I'm not at The Louvre, but damn, I can't pull myself away.

[teetwoohsix]

This is actually what I love about T206's, is that just about the whole set (minus a few) really presents as little pieces of art to me. Not just the HOF'ers, but even the commons. The artwork, especially being from 1909-1911 is truly amazing!

Sincerely, Clayton

[LKeeler]

Chuck beat me to the punch on the Matty, so my next favorite piece of art is the classic Oakes image of him leaping out of the card!

[JasonL]

The baseball card is its own medium within the art world.
My all time fave is the T206 Lajoei with bat....to such an extent I devoted a page on my website to that card. For me, that one sums up an entire era. I also started a thread on this Board several years ago that ran for a while on the T206 sunsets...fanastic artistic images in so many pre-war card sets...

http://www.thetriple-l.com/themythicalrelic.htm