1938 Player's Cricket Album

Some time back I went ebay window shopping. This album caught my eye. I put in a bid and won for less than the cost of a blaster at WallyMart.

This is a smaller album than I had imagined it would be.  About 7-1/2" x 5"

Oh look.  A checklist.  And it has been partially filled in.

I guess it is now complete since every frame has a card pasted in.  All fifty of them.  I won't share every page.

I think I'd rather root for a club that has swords as their logo as opposed to flowers.  All the images are still portraits.  No action shots.

Clark Gable in the middle?

The colors on these cards just pop out, especially the red backgrounds.

Player's Please.

These are a nice complement to my other cricket card.

1928 Wills Cricketers
E. Hendren (card # 21)

Wow.  Another month, another post.  Who knows, I might crack 15 posts this year.  Ha.  Don't count on it.

Thanks to the faithful readers.  I don't know what I'd do with out the three of you.

Reviving the ancient custom

I found reference to the Obak baseball cards in an issue of the United States Tobacco Journal from 1909.

United States Tobacco Journal - October 9, 1909
from Google Books

I found several different advertisements from 1910 that featured the Obak brand, but I haven't found one for the smokes featuring cards.

San Francisco Chronicle - June 8, 1910
from GenealogyBank.com

Here's an example of the T212 Obak cards.

Obak T212 - Hogan
from the Library of Congress

A nickel a pop?  I'd buy them by the carton.

T59 Flags of All Nations - Danish West Indies

Another Listia win.  This card, presumably cut from an album, is part of the four series set, Flags of All Nations, otherwise known as T59.  It set me back 2,132 credits.  I'll take that.  Oh, I did.

T59 Flags of All Nations
Danish West Indies

The Danish West Indies were sold to the US in 1917 and are now recognized as the US Virgin Islands.  The USVI has produced 11 MLB players.

From what I've seen on the web, the typical back for this card is the Recruit brand of cigars.  Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what's behind the paper.

A gentle tug at the album paper lets me know that it isn't wise to keep tugging.  So, how does one remove the paper?  I seem to remember something about soaking it off.  It would also probably clean the card a bit.  Note: I did read a few threads on net54baseball.com.  I think I'll give soaking a try.

Has anyone tried to remove glued paper from cards?  Suggestions? 

The 39 Steps

Another COMC purchase.  From my favorite film, The 39 Steps.

1935 Gallaher Film Partners
Madeleine Carroll & Robert Donat (card # 8)

Here's a checklist for the whole series.

Since it is a movie, here are some newspaper ads from the release.  Oh, how things have changed.

Times-Picayune - November 8, 1935

Oregonian - October 10, 1935

Is it Summer yet?

I picked up my second card from the 1910 Hassan T30 set on Listia a few weeks back.  I used just 667 credits.  In my recent Listia conversion chart that is just one of three Michael Waltrip cards I just auctioned off.  I'll that 'trade' all day long.

In case you missed it, here's a link to my first T30.

1910 Hassan T30
The Crow's-Nest

Ted says, "Is it Summer yet?"

Charles "Gabby" Street - Catcher of Balls

20 plus years ago my friend Doug bought me this tobacco card.  He put it in a screw down case.  I've admired it for those decades, always afraid to remove it, fearing that it was stuck to the plastic and would be ruined if released.

Sunday night I pulled out the #2 Phillips and went to town.  Gabby slipped right out without a problem.

1911 T205 Gold Border
Piedmont back
Charles "Gabby" Street

I guess if your lifetime batting average is just .208 you'd better be known for something else.  He was.

Idaho Statesman - September 6, 1908

23 years prior several ball players tried the same stunt without success.

Daily News (Denver) - January 19, 1885

So, thanks again, Doug, for a wonderful gift those many years ago.

Fauna of Rhodesia and other cards

Taking a bit of a break from the modern entertainment cards and visiting days long gone.

These were part of a lot from a listia win that also included the Girls, Girls, Girls of the German silver screen.

Since I'm not well versed in these types of sets I'm not going to try to identify all of them.

I think that this is from 1929.

Attila was an Austrian actor.

German buildings.  These cards seem to be on photo stock.

A German stream in winter.

I'm guessing that these cars are from the mid 1930s.  Interesting to note that the back of the cards say:  "This surface is adhesive.  Ask your tobacconist for the attractive album, price one penny, specifically to hold the complete series."

I knew that people stuck these in albums and I knew that there were specific albums for sets, but I didn't know that the cards were pre-glued.

A slightly embossed ship card.  Always good to know that the Germans were doing recon in the form of collecting cards.

Girls, Girls, Girls

Another day, another listia post. I won a lot of 12 tobacco cards for 1,510 credits. Most of them are of German origin and a few British. Here are the classy women of Germany.

I don't know much of anything about the cards.  Here's a great site about German Cards.  I need to go exploring.

Erna seems a bit stern.

Erna Morena

The card of Luise is embossed.  All the little stars are raised.

Luise Ullrich

Susi is just a cutie-pie.

Susi Lanner

Coming up soon - German landscapes and some transportation cards.

Roasting-Jacks, Toasting-Forks, Files or Skewers

Wrapping up the Cries of London.

Wood, Three Bundles a Penny
card # 22

Hot Peas
card # 23

Windmills
card # 24

Roasting-Jacks, Toasting-Forks, Files or Skewers
card # 25