Bidspirit auction | 11 Early Baseball Cigarette Cards,

11 Early Baseball Cigarette Cards, Reprints - A reprint collection of 11 vintage baseball cigarette cards spanning two landmark tobacco series from the early 1900s. The group includes nine cards from Allen & Ginter's ”World's Champions” series — a foundational release that established the template for modern card collecting — featuring named players like James Ryan, Charles Comiskey, and John Clarkson rend in period hand-colored lithography. Two additional Piedmont Cigarette cards from the ”Base Ball Series” complete the lot. The cards display the characteristic design language of their era: printed text backs listing player statistics and information, vibrant front imagery with colored backgrounds, and natural aging consistent with over a century of storage.