If one were assembling the most unique pre-war baseball card sets, there's little question that the 1911 T201 Mecca Double Folders would be included. Included as an incentive inside packages of Mecca Cigarettes, the 2-1/4" by 4-11/16" cards feature two players, one on each side. But the most interesting feature of the cards is by far its unique shape. The … [Read more...]
Find Yields Highest Graded T205 Camnitz
A fresh-to-the-hobby stash of more than 270 pre-War baseball,boxing and non-sport cards we told you about in August has now been graded. The collection was acquired by American Legends, a long-time New York City area shop owned by Mark and Donna Rubin. The cards had been in the same family for more than a century, carefully preserved but never graded. Among the cards … [Read more...]
Set Break of the Month: 1911 Mecca Double Folders
In 1911, Mecca Cigarettes offered one of the most unusual baseball card sets ever created, each one a little work of art almost toy-like in design. The T201 Mecca Double Folders set includes 100 different players in a dual-image folding design, meaning there are 50 cards in all to collect. The unique design means the players on each rectangular ‘card’ share the bottom half of … [Read more...]