Here's another card from the lot of N20 1891 Allen & Ginter Fifty Prize & Game Chickens cards I purchased on eBay recently. This one is the Henny Game card. I think the Henny Game is a variation of the Irish Gamefowl in which the males do not develop the typical tail-, neck-, and saddle-feathers that distinguish males in other breeds. I guess you learn something new every day. Or you're supposed to. Sometimes I don't feel like I learn anything for days at a time, but how can you prove that you haven't learned anything at all?
I am rambling here because I don't have anything at all to say about this card. Sometimes you just don't have that blogging mojo going on. And honestly this bird just doesn't hold my interest like some other poultry. I'm still happy to have this card in my collection. Whether I like the pictured bird or not, acquiring this card still bumps my completion of the set up by 2%. This is my 20th card from the set, bringing me to 40% completion overall. The illustration is at least pretty interesting, with bricks, a wooden fence, a house, and some greenery in the background.
It's legs look far too small proportionally to the rest of its body. Freaky. Love these chicken cards.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it does kind of have an odd look to it. It seems like there isn't much meat on these birds.
DeleteIt's funny, to you this card is kind of blah. And for me, it is one of my favorites that you've shown. By the way, the scenery is fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI guess that's the fun thing about collecting. We all have different things that we like, so our collections become reflections of who we are. I do like the scenic backgrounds they put on these cards.
DeleteEach of these cards is really unique and high quality. Imagine collecting these back in the day when they were first issued. Crazy.
ReplyDeleteIt's weird to think about someone 125 years ago collecting trading cards, but enough card sets were produced that it must have been a relatively popular things to do. They produced albums with spots to paste your cards into as you acquired them, and I've seen quite a few examples with the checklists on the back marked off in some way to show how much progress the collector of yesteryear had made on their collection.
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