Pricing help: "The Lady Pitcher" postcard

[Archive]

Posted By: Joann

Hi Adam,

Pretty cool piece. I'm not familiar with this person as an early female player. Maybe she played some semi-pro barnstorming stuff or as a Bloomer Girl. It looks from your PC plus Dan's link that maybe these were some kind of self-promotional item on her part trying to hook on with one of these clubs? Yours looks homemade, and might be that. The one in Dan's link looks more professionally done, like maybe she was known and on a team by then? This is consistent with yours being mailed in 1906, while Dan's is 1907 or later based on the split back. Just guessing at all this, though.

Most female PC's go for under $100 - they don't exceed that often. Anywhere from $20 to $70 is typical depending on condition and content.

But in my experience, named players and known named players go for higher. Alta Weiss easily breaks $100 as do Myrtle Rowe and maybe Maud Nelson (this for individual shots, maybe a bit less for these people in a team shot).

If this Carrie Moyer is someone that is known to have played at that time, either with a Bloomer Girls team (like Maud Nelson) or on a men's team (Alta and Myrtle), then it would break $100. Not sure how you could find that out. If not, it might anyways just because it is named and a cool card (although the writing may detract).

I think it's really neat though. Just out of curiosity, what does the writing say? That may help figure out who she is and if she played for a known team. Was yours mailed from Pennsylvania, as the caption in Dan's link indicates she was from?

J