Identification Numbers And Titles
See J. R. Burdick's The American Card Catalogue for identification numbers and titles from H 804-1 to H 804-8. Numbers and titles from H 804-10 upward have been additions. These later sets were given descriptive names as accurate as possible. H 804-13 was easy. H 804-10 was more difficult and sets like H 804-12 were most difficult.
As the number of "known" cards increased from 180 to approximately 400, a relatively few alterations from each earlier edition was necessary for accuracy and simplicity. For example, there is a new ".218" card as the original moved to the alphabetical "Single Cards With Titles" section. Original set H 804-20 became H 804-1B necessitating a "new" H 804-20. Sets H 804-35 and H 804-37 were eliminated.
Titles of individual trade cards sometimes have incorrect spelling, punctuation or grammar. That is the way these cards appeared originally. Accuracy in 2011 means continuation of incorrect spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Advertising Trade Card Sources of Information
Burdick, J.R. (editor) The American Card Catalogue. New York: Nostalgia Press, 1988 (reprint).
Cheadle, Dave. Victorian Trade Cards: Historical Reference & Value Guide. Paducah, Kentucky: Collector Books, 1996.
Jay, Robert. The Trade Card in Nineteenth Century America. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
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Kit Barry, The Ephemera Archive for American Studies (74 Cotton Mill Hill, Brattleboro, VT 05301) has supplies and occasional information concerning baseball advertising trade cards. Phone (802) 254-3634 or kbarry@surfglobal.net
The Ephemera Society of America (PO Box 95, Cazenovia, NY 13035-0095) has member/dealers whose interests sometimes include trade cards.
www.eBay.com (Baseball Trade Cards) has on-going auctions for specific cards.