1915 Red Sox PC with Ruth vs 1906 W601 Tigers PC with Cobb

[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by calvindog

If the W601 PC was offered in May of 1907, I believe that's still months before any of the other Cobb "rookie" PCs were made: Seamless Steel Tubes, Dietsche, FP Burke Team PC, Heimer Team PC, RPPC Team PC, HM Taylor, Wolverine, Large Form Mailing Team PC, etc. all had October postmarks at the earliest. Kevin can correct me if I'm wrong.

I agree with Jeff. Besides the SL team postcard, the earliest postmark that I have ever seen on a "card" picturing Ty Cobb is from October, 1907. Here are a few more specific notes that I have regarding some of Ty Cobb's earliest "cards."

Please let me know if anyone has images of any earlier postmarks.

Sporting Life Team Postcard - I have images of 12 postcards from this set with 1907 postmarks. The earliest is April 12, 1907

Detroit Seamless Postcard - of the eight Cobbs that I am awae of, seven are postmarked - four on October 4, 1907, one on October 5 and one on October 7

Wolverine Postcard - the earliest postmark from this set that I can find is October 9, 1907.

AC Dietsche Postcard - the earliest postmark from this set that I can find is October 9, 1907. For some reason, only a small percentage of postcards from this set are found cancelled. Jim Chapman has done some great research on this issue and I think that he found an October 1, 1907 newspaper ad that announced the upcoming set.

HM Taylor Postcard - the earliest postmark from this set that I can find is October 7, 1907.

W600 Sporting Life Postcard - first offered to the public in the October 19, 1907 issue of the Sporting Life.

[Leon]

Nice research, Kevin..

]QUOTE=Baseball Rarities;2461645]I agree with Jeff. Besides the SL team postcard, the earliest postmark that I have ever seen on a "card" picturing Ty Cobb is from October, 1907. Here are a few more specific notes that I have regarding some of Ty Cobb's earliest "cards."

Please let me know if anyone has images of any earlier postmarks.

Sporting Life Team Postcard - I have images of 12 postcards from this set with 1907 postmarks. The earliest is April 12, 1907

Detroit Seamless Postcard - of the eight Cobbs that I am awae of, seven are postmarked - four on October 4, 1907, one on October 5 and one on October 7

Wolverine Postcard - the earliest postmark from this set that I can find is October 9, 1907.

AC Dietsche Postcard - the earliest postmark from this set that I can find is October 9, 1907. For some reason, only a small percentage of postcards from this set are found cancelled. Jim Chapman has done some great research on this issue and I think that he found an October 1, 1907 newspaper ad that announced the upcoming set.

HM Taylor Postcard - the earliest postmark from this set that I can find is October 7, 1907.

W600 Sporting Life Postcard - first offered to the public in the October 19, 1907 issue of the Sporting Life.[/QUOTE]