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| 1891 Allen & Ginter's Fifty Prize & Game Chickens: Creve-Coeur Hen, Gold-Laced Bantam, Guinea Fowl, and White Plymouth Rock |
I have an eBay search set up for the Allen & Ginter Prize & Game Chickens set from the early 1890's, but most of the things that pop up are the same folks re-listing the same group of PSA-graded stuff over and over. Well, someone posted most of the set on there as singles with relatively low starting prices. I wanted to bid on the whole lot of them, but I restrained myself a little and bid on the six best-looking ones. I got outbid on two of those and wound up with these four cards. These are some nice-looking cards, with the birds featured up front and nice colorful scenes in the backgrounds.
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| 1891 Allen & Ginter's Fifty Prize & Game Chickens: Creve-Coeur Hen, Gold-Laced Bantam, Guinea Fowl, and White Plymouth Rock |
The backs of these cards are pretty clean, without a lot of marking, stains, or paper loss. They are my first cards from this set that are not PSA-graded, so now I have a storage dilemma. I kind of like the look of the slabbed cards in this case, and I also like the protection the slabs afford to these 125-year old cards. Dropping or otherwise damaging any card feels bad, but I would feel especially bad if I were to hurt these cards after all the many things they've lived through.
How can you not love 124 year old cards of chickens? These are great. I've looked at some of the A&G sports cards from that era but the only affordable ones are of cyclists and billiards players. I'd just as soon have a chicken.
ReplyDeleteI've always liked chickens and livestock anyway, so this set is perfect for me. I was the kid who ordered the Murray McMurray Hatchery catalog every year just to look at the pictures and plan the flock I'd have some day. Come to think of it, a lot of their catalog illustrations are reminiscent of these Allen & Ginter pictures. There's probably a connection there. I really need to get some chickens one of these years.
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