1913 Lajoie game card.

[glynparson]

You can't discount their age because you can find many nice examples. Especially when their is a 1913 date in the game informaToon. That is just silly reasoning. Especially when they are no easier than other period pieces. I believe the box helped protect the cards along with their overall sturdiness and round corners same with national game or Tom barkers or pologrounds or Lawson's all are simillar cards and very easy to find in high grade for a period issue. It's not too difficult to figure out why it's easy to find a high grade example.

[Brian Van Horn]

Originally Posted by glynparson

You can't discount their age because you can find many nice examples. Especially when their is a 1913 date in the game informaToon. That is just silly reasoning. Especially when they are no easier than other period pieces. I believe the box helped protect the cards along with their overall sturdiness and round corners same with national game or Tom barkers or pologrounds or Lawson's all are simillar cards and very easy to find in high grade for a period issue. It's not too difficult to figure out why it's easy to find a high grade example.

Glyn,

I appreciate it, but even with the box, my point is that the cards kind of defy a hobby "gravitational" rule. Yes, the cards are rounded, but cards were produced with children in mind. This was a game. Kids would gravitate toward the cards. What cards made for children in a game survive in such good shape for 102 years? I also don't buy the graphics or the type of paper on the back dating back to 1913.

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Brian Van Horn

Glyn,

I appreciate it, but even with the box, my point is that the cards kind of defy a hobby "gravitational" rule. Yes, the cards are rounded, but cards were produced with children in mind. This was a game. Kids would gravitate toward the cards. What cards made for children in a game survive in such good shape for 102 years? I also don't buy the graphics or the type of paper on the back dating back to 1913.

And don't forget - as playing cards they were meant to be shuffled Defies all reasoning.

[Jay Wolt]

Brian if the game was made for children who handled it, played it & shuffled it.
Perhaps it wasn't a fun game
or too complex and thus wasn't played with all that much.

You're initial post stated an eBay seller w/ 39 SGC high graded cards, probably all from one set.
As stated in an earlier post I had a 50 card set w/ box & instructions of which 2/3rds graded 8's or higher.
With that said, PSA & SGC has graded collectively 561 cards which isn't all that much considering 50 cards
featuring Lajoie's image on each card.
As my pop #'s indicate the National Game set from the same year has over 700 cards graded 9's or higher by PSA & SGC as comparison to the Lajoies 276 in 9/10's.

[Brian Van Horn]

Jay,

I appreciate the population reports, but that is not my point. You have cards that are 102 years old and have somehow with a box survived the grasp of children. The have graphics and paper on the back that are nowhere near what was offered by other games of the time including other games from Parker Brothers.

[Jay Wolt]

Brian I understand your point regarding the high grade Lajoie game cards.
My point by bringing up the pop reports for PSA & SGC is other 1913 game cards also have a multitude of high grade examples.
They too went through the rigors of childrens hands when they handled & played w/ the cards.

[slidekellyslide]

I sometimes think that Brian enjoys trolling the group...this is one of those times.