1889 W.S. Kimball & Co. Ballet Queens (N182) Non-Sport Forum

I have just purchased my first 19th Century trading card.  Yeah, it's a ballerina, but the price was right, and it should be in my hand in a few days.  I gotta say; I'm pretty excited.  Maybe my next one will be something cool like a Norwegian drifter smoking a doobie, but this is a start.

Congratulations! It's a great feeling. I now have 3 and a half cards from the 1800s. It's not too often when you can see Pre-War cards and mean the Spanish-American War. I remember, less than a decade ago, thinking that getting even a single tobacco card seemed like an impossible dream.

Oh that’s awesome. I’ve been stalking 19th century cards. Gotta be baseball. So far, just too expensive. Maybe this year....

Congrats. 

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Congratulations ! Welcome to the darkside of collecting. 

Ok, I’ll bite. Explain the half. Is it literally half a card? Or do you co-own it with someone? 

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Congrats! That's a great set. 

Unfortunately, only a half. I bought a card with 100% paper loss on the back without realizing what I was doing. I wrote about it here, with scans: https://cardboardhistory.blogspot.com/2017/01/1890-buti-feel-like-fool.html

That's what you took that to mean?  I just assumed the card began production on December 31, 1899 but they didn't finish it until the next day.

Give OC the prize for best comment of the night.

My card arrived today!  Wasn't that fast?  Six days from California!  You can all admire my lovely Laurette ...