One of the earliest (and scarcest) commemorative baseball card sets issued by The Card Memorabilia Associates, Limited (TCMA) was the now half century old 1874 Philadelphia Athletics set. While technically reprints of larger engravings made from woodcuts that originally appeared in late 19th century copies of HARPER'S WEEKLY, they were never issued as cards until TCMA did the job in 1974. Accordingly, we call them "commemoratives". (We should add that TCMA called them Reprints noting their year of publication, "1973".)

Card size is approximately 3-1/16" by 4-1/2". Cards of this rather unusual size will display well in standard 4-pocket sheets designed for smaller postcards (up to 3-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches) with full card coverage. While we could find no record of production numbers, our experience tells us the set from which this card comes was likely produced in quite small quantities. The Standard Catalog of VINTAGE Baseball Cards reports 9 cards to comprise the full set.

Condition: Excellent  - check the high-resolution scans. A colored background is provided to assist in evaluating card corners and edges. Since we have just this one single example of this card, this is the card the buyer will receive.

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