Cabinet card checklist?

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Non-commercial baseball cabinets weren't issued like baseball cards, so it's difficult at best to establish a set. Due to the rarity, it likely would be near impossible to finish a set if it existed. If you decided you were going to complete the Carl Horner Cabinet Card set of T206 poses-- irrelevant to the cost, you would be purchasing a cabinet card about once or twice per year. The best bet is buy baseball cabinets that you like as they come up for sale or auction. If I were going for Horner set, I still wouldn't pass up on a nice Brady if it came up. You might end up having an assortment of styles and photographers and players instead of the set you were hoping for-- but that's fine.


Having said that, there is nothing at all wrong with someone researching and documenting the known Major League cabinet cards, photoraphers, etc, so that collectors have a handle on what's out there.