Ty Cobb 1907 rare rookie postcards - Their origin stories told

[calvindog]

Jim, fantastic work there.

Kevin, thanks for that info.

[benchod]

Great sleuthing, Jim. Thanks for the informative post

Kevin, thanks for the postmark information; you know where a lot of the bodies are buried in this hobby!

Here is my meager contribution

[Leon]

Great research, Jim. And thanks to all of the contributors in this thread. It is appreciated by all. And some day 50 yrs down the road maybe someone will Google this subject and find it here .

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[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by benchod

Here is my meager contribution

Such a great postcard. Love the way that he has his bat in one hand and glove in the other. He is definitely ready to play ball.

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities

Such a great postcard. Love the way that he has his bat in one hand and glove in the other. He is definitely ready to play ball.

@BeanTown

oh wait, this isn't Instagram.

[Rich Falvo]

That Detroit Seamless card is beautiful.

[T206Jim]

It is apparent that the 1907 World Series, and the many popular Tiger sets it spawned, was a seminal event for baseball postcards of the Deadball Era. If Tiger mania hadn't swept Detroit that year would many of these sets, and many of the major sets (Rose, Novelty Cutlery, Sepia etc.) that followed followed in their wake in the next few years, even been issued?

[docpatlv]

Jim, there is also a jumbo sized postcard of the floral horseshoe postcard pictured in the first post (without the extra print line). I was told that only 2 were known to exist and that one of them was in a museum in Detroit. I can post a picture later.