The hobby’s modest population of a deadball era trading card set just grew by 38. New Jersey-based Just Collect just purchased the previously unknown group of 1914 Fatima tobacco cards (T222) from a Maryland family that had owned them since the year of issue. The group includes several Hall of Famers including Walter Johnson, Frank Chance, Grover Cleveland … [Read more...] about 1914 Fatima Card Find in Maryland Includes Hall of Famers
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Rare Baseball Card Found in Old Bible
One hundred years ago, it did its duty. Day after day. Devotion after devotion. It wasn’t likely even called by its current name then. The term “baseball card” wasn’t really in fashion quite yet. It was a nice picture of a ballplayer—one the owner might have even recognized. No, the job of this old baseball photo—once it was free of its association with a tobacco … [Read more...] about Rare Baseball Card Found in Old Bible
T200 and T222 Fatima Cards Provide Interesting Challenge
This article, written by Joe Michalowicz, originally appeared in the Trader Speaks, a noted hobby publication that ran from the late 1960s to early 1980s. In 1913 Fatima Turkish Blend cigarettes, a division of the Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Company, issued two sets of cards, listed as T200 and T222 in the American Card Catalog. The T200 set consists of team pictures of … [Read more...] about T200 and T222 Fatima Cards Provide Interesting Challenge