Archive for '1887'
N174 Gypsy Queen Baseball
10 April 2007Issued in 1887 by Goodwin and Company is the N174 Gypsy Queen baseball card set. Issued in two sizes, with the large cards measuring 2" by 3-1/2" and the small cards at 1-1/2" by 2-1/2", these cards are similar to the Gypsy Queen series in the N172 Old Judge set, making it a closely related set […]
Understanding Goodwin & Company
8 April 2007Goodwin and Company’s massive yet, sometimes confusing N172 set of baseball cards was the first widely distributed set devoted to baseball players only. Consisting of six series of printings over four years, I’ll try to explain the set here.
1887 N172 Goodwin and Company
8 April 2007While Allen & Ginter were busy releasing exciting tobacco cards, competition in the tobacco market was growing at an extremely rapid rate. Not to be outdone, several additional cigarette manufacturers were also issuing cards. One, the Goodwin and Company, issued a sepia-colored baseball set promoting their Old Judge and Gypsy Queen cigarettes.
It’s known as the enormous […]
1887 N370 Long Jack Baseball
8 April 2007The 1887 N370 Long Jack set is one of the toughest sets of cards to collate from all 1800s tobacco sets. It was distributed by the Long Jack Cigarette Company of Lynchburg, Virginia. It depicts 13 cards of players for the early St. Louis Browns of the American Association, and champions of all baseball teams in […]
1887 N28 Allen & Ginter Introduces Tobacco
8 April 2007The first nationaly disseminated baseball card set is the Allen & Ginter’s N28. The set of varying sports cards is considered the first of the tobacco issues. It’s fitting to know that Allen & Ginter’s prior standard included a set of cards picturing shocking young women in their tightest swimwear!
But because jealous females didn’t approve, this norm […]
