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Category: Sports

Baseball Player At Bat Old Postcard

Undivided back postcard. Circa 1906. Publisher or Printer:  Stationers Manufacturing Co., Quincy, Ohio. Price:  $4.00 I had wanted to get this card up for MLB opening day, but it didn’t make it. No biggie, anyway it’s showing a young ball…Read More…

Young Hockey Players

Vintage photo, white border, circa 1950s. Price:  $4.00         Size: 4 and 7/8 x 3″ It’s hockey season again, yay! These guys are happily posing with their sticks on a frozen stream, by the looks of it. There’s a rustic wooden…Read More…

Fishing From Pier In Lake Michigan

Divided back postcard, postmarked August 18, 1911, Chicago, Illinois. Number or series 575. Price:  $6.00 Imagine today, fishing off a pier attired in a suit coat and bowler hat! Pretty cool. It’s t-shirts and baseball caps now, though. But it’s…Read More…

Dog And Skier, Finnish Handicraft Series

Divided back, artist-signed, unused postcard. Finnish Handicraft Series. Circa 1950s – 1980s. Price:  $20.00 The date is unknown for this postcard, as no other cards were found online under any form of the back description: Finnish Handcraft Series. Hemslöjdsföreningarnas Centralförbunds…Read More…

E.T.W. Dennis & Sons, Ltd.

This logo circa 1906 – 1910?  See our York Minster post for the front side. This is an example of the newer version of the ” ‘Dainty’ Series” logo showing figure holding lantern, by publisher E.T.W. Dennis & Sons, Ltd….Read More…

Tennis Lovers Christmas Card

Christmas card of heavier cardboard, and rounded edges. Missing right bottom corner. Artist and date unknown. Circa 1890s – 1910.  Size:  About 6 x 4 and 1/2.” Price:  $6.00 “May Christmas Joys be Scattered round Thy head.” Here’s an unlikely…Read More…

Polo Grounds, National League Baseball Park, New York

Divided back, unused postcard. Circa 1922 – 1923. Publisher:  Manhattan Post Card Co., New York City. Price:  $15.00 Here’s one in keeping with the season:  October…nail biting time if your team has made it to the playoffs…The description on the…Read More…

Hockey Player

Studio portrait with cardboard frame, circa 1920s – 1930s. Price:  $15.00 Old studio portrait of an unknown hockey player. At first glance, the name of the photography studio appearing at the bottom right seems to be “Press Studio” but upon…Read More…