Anyone here well versed in Old Judge cards?

Golfcollector

I posted on Net54 just because they seem to have a more active T-Card and before following but no help there as of yet.

This is an Old Judge card of Silver Flint. I am attaching a scan I found on line from The Metropolitan Museum. The card I have has a very light registration and you can make out the shape of the buildings in the background, but not really any features.(such as the windows of the buildings or the lines in the wall behind the player) The one I have you can see the copyright written in white to the left of the player but again it is not a well pronounced image.

I wanted to ask for some expertise from here, as the version I have has the full "Silver Flint" spelled out, both in white and Silver Flint C. Chicagos - - - while most of the examples I can find on line simply say FLINT C. Chicagos for the name.

Appreciate any help, Old Judges are definitely not my strong suit in terms of knowledge. Not sure if this is something a little more rare, etc just because I have not been able to find much info on this particular name variation.

Dave

RailsideCards

Dave, I have The Photographic Baseball Cards of Goodwin & Company (1886-1890) an exhaustive listing of every Old Judge card known at the time of it's publication in 2008. There are five Frank "Silver" Flint cards, you have 163-4 bat at ready nearly vertical. The picture in this book of your card is the pose but is otherwise a very different card than the one you have pictured. So, yours is a variation not known at the time or a counterfeit. Hopefully the former.

Flint, Frank Sylvester, "Silver" 1855-1892
He was called "Silver" because of his light blond hair. Flint began his major league career with the National Association St. Louis Reds in 1875. The biggest part of his thirteen-year major league career was spent with the Chicago White Stockings where, from 1879 to 1889, he proved to be a great defensive catcher. A testament to the quality of his fielding was that he found a place to play for so long, while only compiling a .236 lifetime batting average.

hope that helps!

Kevin

dfanredsfan

Very interesting card. I love these things, but there seems to be little interest in them on the PSA boards. then again, PSA is pretty brutal when it comes to grading them--but that's a posting for another day.

df