Produced in 1910-11 by the American Tobacco Company, the Turkey Red cabinet cards were redeemable by mailing in coupons found in packs of Turkey Red, Fez and Old Mill brand cigarettes. The large-format cards were produced on heavy stock, measuring 5 ¾” x 8” and feature beautiful, colorful lithographic printings featuring one of 126 different subjects (including 25 boxers, which are catalogued as T9 cards, but are actually part of the same set).  

Cards are found with checklists on the reverse, or in the case of card numbers 77-126, with a Turkey Red advertisement. Due to their size, the cards are often found with pinholes and back damage from mounting in scrapbooks or hanging on walls, and are seldom found in higher grades. Difficult to find in quantity, they are considered to be among the most beautiful and desirable of all the baseball tobacco issues.

Legendary hitter "Wee" Willie Keeler represented squaring to bunt on his T3 Turkey Red card (he should really get the bat head out over the plate; he's going to get hit by a pitch that way). Keeler was one of the greatest players of the deadball era. Owner of a lifetime batting average of .341, Keeler hit a monstrous .424 in 1897, though that was the only season in which he broke the .400 plateau. This example has been graded Poor 1 by PSA thanks to some surface wear, rounded corners, and soft edges.

PSA has only ever graded 44 total examples of this T3 Turkey Red with a checklist back of Hall of Famer Wee Willie Keeler.