19th Century baseball envelope

[todeen]

That ornate back Old Judge envelope is sweet.

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[1880nonsports]

I have a few Ginter's to add. I'll edit them in here. Those OJ's are BEAUTIES! Sold my only OJ example long ago. Nice French address Allen and Ginter cover on the Bay for about 5x what I figure to be the actual value of one of these. In any event they are all SCARCE to say the least.

BTW to the OP - these "covers" have a hobby niche of their own. The graphics can at times be spectacular. Some of the civil war ones come to mind. Advertising covers came later. I like yours as not often you see a baseball graphic and it's for a hardware store - neat :-)

[todeen]

Originally Posted by 1880nonsports

BTW to the OP - these "covers" have a hobby niche of their own. The graphics can at times be spectacular. Some of the civil war ones come to mind. Advertising covers came later. I like yours as not often you see a baseball graphic and it's for a hardware store - neat :-)

Thanks the compliment - I thought it was neat too. I was looking for the 1939 baseball centennial covers a few years ago and this came up in an eBay search. I didn't have anything pre-1900, and so I snatched this up.

I have seen a lot of covers that are caches, like the 1939 caches. And I had seen other covers that are expanded return labels - like some of the ones pictured above. But the full on advertising was something new to me. The OJ ads are spectacular. I didn't know those existed.

[oldjudge]

Here are two letters from the mid-1870s sent by Andrew Peck (of Peck & Snyder) to a friend. I have also shown the envelopes, one of which was ornate.

[slidekellyslide]

Can 20th Century covers join the party?

[oldjudge]

Dan-Those are beauties, well within the margin for error.

[jerrys]

Here are a few 19th century advertising letters but without the envelopes.

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