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Old Baseball Card Photographs - Ramly Cigarettes (T204) Series - Super High Resolution DVD: Old Baseball Card Photographs Ramly Cigarettes T204 Series Super High Resolution DVD |
| Product Description : "Few marketing gimmicks have met with the kind of run-away success that cigarette manufacturers enjoyed in the late 19th century. Cashing in on James Duke?s brilliant ploy to piggyback on the popularity of baseball, several tobacco companies issued fabulous cards portraying popular baseball stars of the era. Fortunately for history buffs and diehard baseball fans like me, collectors down the years have salvaged and conserved a handful of these masterpieces, which not only preserve a historic perspective of the game, but also reflect on the marketing genius of Duke and the advances made in printing technology at the time. Those who grew up in the 50s and 60s will certainly recall the Topps Company cards, which portrayed popular ball players of the day. These cards bear testimony to the continued popularity of baseball cards seventy years after the first lot was printed. While the achievements of players featured on these cards may mean little to baseball fans today, the vintage value and antiquity of the cards themselves make them invaluable and priceless collectibles. With so much of historic wealth packed into a single DVD, I don?t think any knowledgeable baseball card collector would let go of this opportunity to add this DVD to his or her collection." |
