Start: 3/18/2025 12:00 AM EST End: 4/5/2025 9:00 PM EST
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Category: 19th Century
Starting Bid: $150.00
Bids: 6 (Bid History)
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The H804-11 Cosack & Co. trade cards are among the more popular of all the 19th Century trade card issues a 9-card set that features colorfully illustrated cards featuring generic images of baseball players framed inside a bright blue border. Each image represents a different position on the baseball field though there is no card for "right field " as the set includes a "batsman" instead. As is the case with most trade card issues these cards were printed on lighter stock making them condition sensitive. They were produced by Cosack & Company a Buffalo-based lithographer and feature delightful illustrations on postcard-sized paper the interesting illustrations lending the set its popularity. The cards like all advertising trade cards were printed and sold to different sponsors who applied their advertising message on both the front and back of each card. The most frequently found of these advertisers is the New Jersey clothier Marshall & Ball. Because of this many refer to the cards as the "Marshall & Ball" set. The reality however is that there are multiple advertisers found to have used these cards to convey their message. Presented here is a complete set of nine cards four of which bear the Marshall & Ball advertisement two of which bear the Edward Malley & Co. advertisement and three of which are blank. The cards all present very well though several suffer from a slight trim at the border or in the case of the centerfielder and leftfielder card a clipped corner. Glue stains are evident on the reverse of each of the cards a common issue of the era since the cards were typically glued into scrapbooks. Still a desirable and attractive complete set one of the most popular of all the trade card issues. Nine cards total.