1908 Detroit Free Press trimmed?

[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

So are their 2 sheets of 8 making a complete set at 16 ? Old Cardboard has the most updated list and photos and they list 14 players and on your sheet I see listed ( Downs and Coughlin ) which were previously not listed therefore the set is now at least 16. These should be added on the Old Cardboard website. Nice find !!!

My gut tells me that the 8 card sheet that is posted above is only 1/2 of a 16 card sheet, which would contain a complete set. It looks to me like the original 16 card sheet (4 cards x 4 cards) was unevenly cut horizontally across the middle.

DFP postcards are extremely rare. I think that there is a good chance that they were never issued to the public and possibly all of the known cards were hand cut off sheets back in the day.

Has anyone ever seen a postmarked DFP postcard?

[orly57]

What a great point. In my research, I saw no DFP cards that appeared to be postally used. Not all online images showed the backs, but none of them had any signs of being postally used like a postmark. What does this mean then? I can see it's significant, but can't put my finger on why. And if they weren't distributed to the public, what was their purpose? I found this old Lew Lipsett auction where Jeff's Cobb sold many years ago. There were 11 total DFP cards auctioned off in four different lots. Lew did not provide pics of the backs. Here is a link. There was also a Rose Co Wagner sold for just over 5k...those were the days.
http://www.oldjudge.com/archive/200811/postcards/#205

[BeanTown]

Clues to solving the age old mystery. Last night in a Clean Sweep auction as a Crawford Detroit Free Press card sold for 5500.

https://www.cleansweepauctions.com/i...tem=0000658865

Luckily they showed the back of the postcard which has a promotion stamped on it. I don't think anyone has ever seen this stamp before as they are normally blank backed. Plus as Kevin mentioned, we still have yet to see a postally used one from this series of 16.

So my guess is the Detroit Free Press did a print run to promote Sunday paper sales and then pulled the plug before they got in circulation. Most likely they were gonna be distributed to paperboys but just a guess. The sizes variance makes sense as Orlando said. I've seen the same size variances on the Brush PC series to.

Very cool item that sold last night and congrats to the new owner.

[Leon]

Great thread. Thanks (to all) for sharing the info.

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Clues to solving the age old mystery. Last night in a Clean Sweep auction as a Crawford Detroit Free Press card sold for 5500.

https://www.cleansweepauctions.com/i...tem=0000658865

Luckily they showed the back of the postcard which has a promotion stamped on it. I don't think anyone has ever seen this stamp before as they are normally blank backed. Plus as Kevin mentioned, we still have yet to see a postally used one from this series of 16.

So my guess is the Detroit Free Press did a print run to promote Sunday paper sales and then pulled the plug before they got in circulation. Most likely they were gonna be distributed to paperboys but just a guess. The sizes variance makes sense as Orlando said. I've seen the same size variances on the Brush PC series to.

Very cool item that sold last night and congrats to the new owner.

[Leon]

Great thread. Thanks (to all) for sharing the info.

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Clues to solving the age old mystery. Last night in a Clean Sweep auction as a Crawford Detroit Free Press card sold for 5500.

https://www.cleansweepauctions.com/i...tem=0000658865

Luckily they showed the back of the postcard which has a promotion stamped on it. I don't think anyone has ever seen this stamp before as they are normally blank backed. Plus as Kevin mentioned, we still have yet to see a postally used one from this series of 16.

So my guess is the Detroit Free Press did a print run to promote Sunday paper sales and then pulled the plug before they got in circulation. Most likely they were gonna be distributed to paperboys but just a guess. The sizes variance makes sense as Orlando said. I've seen the same size variances on the Brush PC series to.

Very cool item that sold last night and congrats to the new owner.

[Golfcollector]

I was an early pursuer of the Crawford but WAY above my budget is where this one landed. Very cool and very rare card!