1911 Baseball Snapshots Strip Card Ad Find

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by birdman42

Hm. Interesting that the ad promises 250 different pictures. OC says that there are "69+" in the set. I can't imagine that less than a third of the set has been discovered yet after all these years, so my conclusion is that Meyer never got all the way through their planned run.

Bill, it actually says that there are 250 pictures in the assortment that the jobber was to receive, not that there are 250 subjects in the set.

The ad is a great research find; thanks for sharing it.

The ad also says there are 72 small boxes in each container and 48 containers in a case. The containers sound like the equivalent of modern card wax boxes. I wonder if the containers actually had cards printed on them or if the images on the containers were different in size or other ways from the actual box cards?

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Bill, it actually says that there are 250 pictures in the assortment that the jobber was to receive, not that there are 250 subjects in the set.

At 4 per small box, the math doesn't quite work out... With 250 not being a multiple of 4. I guess if you were to subtract the 14 on the box(although I wouldn't, they don't appear to have full borders, since the ones on the smaller boxes appear to have a fairly defined border, or cut line) you would get 236, which is a multiple of 4, by 59. Assuming another panel of 14 on the other side of the box, would bring that number to 222, which is also not a multiple of 4...

Mathematically speaking. I'm led to believe that the quoted number of 250, is more than likely the number in the set(or assortment), or at one time was to be the intended number in the set. Maybe there were to be multiple series?

[GoldenAge50s]

With an issue of that style, wouldn't you expect there to be many shared boxes, like Mathewson-Collins, Collins-Cobb, Cobb- Mathewson?

That would allow for the 250 figure to be accurate as to the # of DIFFERENT individual subjects.