"Baseball Magazine" Posters

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

I recently won an item described as a 1913 Baseball Magazine Poster of Chief Meyers. I believe that they may be listed with the American Card Catalog label of M113. I am awaiting the arrival of the item, and I'm hopeful that it is original.

I am also very aware that some of these baseball premiums have been reprinted over the years.

I was able to find several of these posters with the same dimensions of
10" X 19" listed in an old Oregon Trail catalog. One of the lots in the same catalog included the mailing tube that these posters were shipped in.

I have seen one of these Chief Meyers' posters about 10 years ago at an antique shop in Maine that had edge tears, which I believed was an original.

I have also seen another poster last year at a card show which had far less clarity and had no edge wear. Since the dealer had about a dozen of these posters of various players, all pristine, and all shrink wrapped, I assumed these were reprints.

Lastly, I also passed on one of these last year on EBAY that the seller revealed was quite a bit smaller than the 10" X 19" size.

I'm curious as to whether the reprints are all smaller dimensions?

If anyone could provide feedback on this issue, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks, Patrick

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Posted By: Patick McMenemy

If anyone would like to view the Chief Meyers' Baseball Magazine Poster, feel free to look under completed items, Item number: 5178743826.

Thanks, Patrick

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I had a Ty Cobb and the paper was similar to many magazine suppliments-- thin, white coated and smooth/semi-glossy. Much like modern glossy magazine paper. Not matte like newspaper.

I hadn't heard of reprints of the Baseball Magazine premiums, other than many were issued by the magazine over a number of years. Without seeing it is person, my guess is the one you bought is genuine.

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Thanks for the response David.

The 1998 Oregon Trail auction catalog that I eluded to mentioned that reprints do exist for these issues.

Thanks, Patrick

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Posted By: Scott Forrest

I bought a few of the reprints - they are very large, but have a matte finish as David said. Also, they are wider than the real ones. The final clue - the ones I have look like they were made from images of real ones that were sort of beat-up.

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Thanks for the response Scott.

I'm curious as to what the dimensions of your Meyers' reprint poster might be?
Did it come shrink wrapped?

Thanks, Patrick

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Posted By: Scott Forrest

I just pulled them out to check - I had forgotten you and I discussed the Meyers when I originally won the auctions.

They are still nice items. I only wanted the Nap Rucker, and got carried away - ended up with Rucker, Meyers, Jennings, Plank, Bender and McInnes. I think I paid about $60 for the group, which didn't bother me too much since the Rucker is very nice and I've never seen the photo before. Of course, now I see the original one on ebay all the time

Since buying these, I won a real Wagner - the quality of these is equal, but they are on matte-finish paper, rather than glossy. "Baseball Magazine" reprinted many of the older ones from 1930 on. These are NOT modern computer-generated, but rather they are real prints. So I guess it's possible that they were created toward the end of when BM made this sort of thing. I really don't know, but I've owned the real old ones, and these ain't them.

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Posted By: Chris Counts

I have a Baseball Magazine ad from 1936. You can order many different posters from the "tobacco card" era ...

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Posted By: davidcycleback

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Thanks for all the responses. This is one of the issues where very little is written about.

I had originally bid on the Chief Meyers that you later won Scott. When the seller emailed the dimensions to me, I realized that it was smaller than the original I had seen first-hand at the antique shop in Maine. I, therefore, retracted my bid since it wasn't an original but a reproduction.

Thanks all,

Patrick

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Finally got my Chief Meyers M113 Poster today. It looks like the real deal, and will look great matted and framed.

Patrick