Flashback 1936 Pitching and Batting leader's Well Sorta

WinPitcher

Nice G/VG examples, notice the corners where the card was placed into a mounting. Original collector of these cards most probably had them in some sort of album. Im thinking that maybe these company's had albums in some cases.

Steve

MorrellMan

Steve - nice cards. I think most English tobacco sets had albums to go with them; I remember being told years ago that that was the "British" way of collecting cards. I'm sure Matt can fill us in when he gets back from his pub-hopping.

BTW - on this subject, I did pick up this little thing (1926 Turf George Sisler):

invader

Hi guys,

You are correct. Most UK tobacco firms issues flimsy albums to keep the cards in. There were mainly 2 types of album, one where you had to stick the cards in and another where you tucked the 4 corners into pre-cut slits on the pages. Some sets had specialy printed albums but usually they were generic with a space on the front to write in the name of the set.


Matt

Cubfan

I like the cricket cards. That H. Larwood is in that set of public figures that I posted a month or so ago. I read up on him and he was involved in a scandal of sorts by developing a strategy of throwing the ball right at the batters and injuring some of them.

Just think, beanballs in proper old England and Austrailia in the 30's. Pretty interesting.

I have some film cards coming back from PSA next week. Ill post a couple when they get here.

Stone193

<< <i>Steve - nice cards. I think most English tobacco sets had albums to go with them; I remember being told years ago that that was the "British" way of collecting cards. I'm sure Matt can fill us in when he gets back from his pub-hopping.

BTW - on this subject, I did pick up this little thing (1926 Turf George Sisler):

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Nice cards Steve!

Mark
What the heck is this? Am I the last - you have one, Steve has one, all God's children has one EXCEPT me!
I forgot - what is the name of the set - this was in the second series right?
I need to do a search!
Oh, and thanx immensely for the card! Very nice. When I was in Houston, I saw some nice nonsport stuff but very overpriced IMO.

your friend
Mike

MorrellMan

Mike - this is a 1926 Turf George Sisler - I don't no nothing about the set, but I saw it on an earlier post, there was one up on ebay and poof! all of a sudden it's mine. Here's another one that I know nothing about, but I was unsuccessful in attempting to get it: