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[rhettyeakley]

sometimes the images don't work on Google Chrome (at least for me) so try a different browser if you are using Chrome.

[Roland 49]

Rhett, I always communicate with net54 from my mobile and I use Chrome, now I connected through the computer and the 3 images of Acosta, Dibut and Palmero looked very good, I had not seen Acosta's, a while ago I connected to Ebay cubanbaseball and I see that a Luque Exhibit postcard is for sale, it is the same image but in mine it is seen behind part of another player's uniform, stands etc. and in Exhibit's, none of the above, all blurry, what do you think? the 2 photos go.

[Cubanball]

Saludos Rolando, I have been researching these postcards for some time. I first saw the three examples that Rhett posted when they first appeared in auction. I found it interesting that all three had the punched hole. I am including a photo of the Marsans postcard also with the punch hole. In his excellent book "Exhibit and Related Sports Arcade Cards," Adam S. Warshaw, listed a set identified as the "1922 Baseball Postcards" that pictured an example of a postcard with the same style back as the one you have pictured above and also the punched hole. Mr. Warshaw describes these as frequently confused with the "1922 Eastern Exhibit" set, since they used the same player photos and similar postcard backs, but not being Exhibit cards at all only postcards.

Mr. Warshaw explains that the Eastern Exhibit Supply Company of Philadelphia got sued by the Exhibit Supply Company of Chicago, the original makers of Exhibit cards, for infringement on their rights and name and lost. The Exhibit Supply Company then takes over their remaining inventory.

It is possible that the makers of the "1922 Baseball Postcards" were somehow related to the makers of the "1922 Eastern Exhibit" set and also made the Cuban examples to be sold to the Cuban market. In making the Cuban subset they used available photos including the two Mendelsohn photos for Mike Gonzalez and Armando Marsans. This last part is only speculation on my part.

[Cubanball]

Here are scans of the Mike Gonzalez 1946 Sears Postcard and 1917-20 Felix Mendelsohn's M101-6 cards from my collection.

[Cubanball]

Below are the original photo used for the Mike Gonzalez 1917-20 Felix Mendelsohn and Baseball Postcard and the Adolfo Luque photo used for the Exhibit and Baseball Postcard. As you can see the makers all cropped the photos to produce their cards. The makers of the Exhibit cards often used paints to brush out the background of the photo to leave the player alone as seen in the Luque exhibit card. The makers of the Eastern Exhibit cards and the makers of the Baseball Postcards in question here did not brush out the backgrounds. Leading me to speculate that they may have been one and the same.

[Cubanball]

Next point I would like to make is the similarity between the postcard backs of the Eastern Exhibits and the Baseball Postcards. They are the same except the Eastern Exhibits identify the maker. The Baseball Postcards do not identify the maker. Here is more of my speculation. The Eastern Exhibits are dated to 1922 but I believe the Baseball Postcards were produced later, I will talk more about the dating later. This makes sense since the makers of the Eastern Exhibits got sued and lost. If they themselves or someone related made the Baseball Postcards after the trial they decided not to make Exhibit cards, but make postcards instead and not put the makers name either as to not violate the rights of of the Exhibit Supply Company that had sued them.

[Cubanball]

Next lets look at the name and team designations placed at the center bottom of both the Eastern exhibit (Bancroft) and Baseball Postcards (Palmero). As you can see they are using a different font but similar style.