Gold Borders (T205) – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Gold Borders (T205) comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gold Borders (T205)
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The gold frame that gives this card its name sets it apart from the white-bordered tobacco cards of the same years, and "T205" is the collector's shorthand for the American Tobacco Company's 1911 set. Cards like this were packed with cigarettes, where the stiff cardboard helped protect the packs and gave buyers a reason to collect the full series. Its small portrait of a player, framed in bright gilt, makes it one of the best-known tobacco cards of the 1910s and a useful record of how the game was marketed to adult men during that decade.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,797 × 4,740 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220473 |
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