Re: Merchantile Novelty Company, Inc.

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by Leon

yeah, those too ...thanks Tom....I am not really a postcard guy so forgot about those.

Leon that a nice Bancroft PC you have for a non=postcard guy!

[nolemmings]

Old Cardboard states that Novelty Cutlery PCs were produced by the Novelty Cutlery Co. of Canton, OH. Was this an affiliate of Merchantile Novelty Co. Inc. of NY? Was one a successor to the other? Is Old Cardboard in error? I seem to recall a reference to the Merchantile Novelty Co, but do not know from where--maybe an article in VCBC or OC?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Leon that a nice Bancroft PC you have for a non=postcard guy!

For the most part I don't collect them but if I did I would be all over that one....I think it's really neat and is the reason I picked it up (to resell).

[Butch7999]

Nothing from this corner on "Merchantile Novelty," but there were plenty of companies with "Novelty" in their name that produced baseball-related stuff. Thought sure somebody on board would have mentioned the circa 1919 cards by Mayfair Novelty Co...

Just in games, there's
National League Ball Game (Yankee Novelty Co, 1890)
American Base Ball (Mechanical Novelty Co, 1903)
Leslie's Base-Ball Game (Perfection Novelty & Advertising, 1909)
Pennant Puzzle (O.K. Novelty Co, 1909)
"Babe Ruth" Witch-E Base-Ball Game (Baltimore Novelty Co Inc, circa 1920)
Ty Cobb's Own Game of Base Ball (The National Novelty Co, 1924)
Play Ball - Everybody's Game (Krieger Novelty Co, 1925; 2nd edition 1928)
Home Run (Durable Toy & Novelty Corp, 1935)
and onward... plus any number of baseball punchboards, dolls, and coin-ops by several other "Novelty" companies.