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==trade card and trading card, there is a big difference== |
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Trading cards have to be bought = were bought = are for sale in sealed packages |
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and are edited in sets mostly related to sports events or "playing" games. |
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Trade cards on the contrary were a gift from a Company and are really 50 to 150 years older, these days it is to costly to give away cards, so only an illustrated visiting card or postcards from a company, printed with their address AND/OR product publicity, could be called a trade card. |
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Furthermore a trade card has printed information about the Company on front AND reverse |
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As always there are exceptions : if the printer used the cards ( which he printed ) for other purposes. |
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Then we can find the trade card without printing on the back and call it a printers proof. |
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If there is NO printed advertising on the card nor on the front nor on the reverse side then it is called a stock card. |
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Most trade cards were produced in sets ( mosty 6 cards ) by very big international Company's, those were the first multi-nationals. |
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Good examples were the big Tobaco Companies beginning 1880, big tea and coffee distributors (Arbucles), chocolate ( Suchard, Van Houten ), meat extract company [http://www.chromo.be Liebig's Company]Liebig, Cibils and many others. Serials ( series, sets ) were edited sometimes on 100.000nds from each set. And the biggest collection is that from more than different 2000 sets ( +7000 variations in many languages ) by Justus von Liebig's Fleish extrakt Kompagnie. The earliest lithographic color card ( stone press print ) I have is a Rimmel Parfume card from 1862. Of course there are known earlier cards ... porcelain cards : ... but those were individual name cards from shops AND not editied in sets, this was around 1837 ( my oldest ). Trade cards are mostly found glued in very old albums or iserted in albums especialy edited for that purpose by the company's advertising department. |
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I just wanted to make clear the difference between |
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---trading cards :newer ( mostly after WWII, smaller, coated, offset = 3 colors or laserprint printed, no publicity for an editing food-, drug- or product company ) |
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AND |
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---trade cards : older; smaller sets of 6 or multples of 6; litho, litho chromo, chromo litho = real color up to 8 (sometimes 17 colours ); always advertising a product somtimes lifted, floating, playing in the scenic image; mostly stories ( first comic stories ); sometimes with pricing or real misleading, suggesting topic to buy the product ! |
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victorian advertising trade cards |
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[[User:Albert180307|Albert180307]] 11:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)Albert Van den Bosch |
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Revision as of 11:46, 30 August 2006
A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card which is intended for trading and collecting. Trading cards are traditionally associated with sports; baseball cards are especially well-known. Cards dealing with other subjects are often considered a separate category from sports cards, known as editorial trading cards or simply non-sports trading cards. These often feature cartoons, comic book characters, or television series.
As with playing cards, which they generally resemble, trading cards may sometimes be used to play various games. In the 1990s, cards designed specifically for playing games became popular enough to develop into a distinct category of collectible card games. These tend to use either fantasy subjects or sports as the basis for gameplay.
The development of the Internet has brought the development of various online communities through which members could trade cards with each other. One of the earliest of these was Old Baseball Cards, a group originally organized on Prodigy.
The value of trading cards depends on a combination of the subject's popularity and the scarcity of the cards themselves. In some cases, especially with older cards before the advent of card collecting as a widespread hobby, they have become collector's items of considerable value. In more recent years, cards have not necessarily appreciated as much in value due to mass production, although some manufacturers have used limited editions and smaller print runs to boost value.
In some jurisdictions, trading cards (particularly baseball cards) are distributed by police officers to children in order to boost public relations.
Companies that produce or have produced trading cards
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Categories of Trading Cards
Sports cards
Non-sports cards
Movie & television cardstrade card and trading card, there is a big differenceTrading cards have to be bought = were bought = are for sale in sealed packages and are edited in sets mostly related to sports events or "playing" games. Trade cards on the contrary were a gift from a Company and are really 50 to 150 years older, these days it is to costly to give away cards, so only an illustrated visiting card or postcards from a company, printed with their address AND/OR product publicity, could be called a trade card. Furthermore a trade card has printed information about the Company on front AND reverse As always there are exceptions : if the printer used the cards ( which he printed ) for other purposes. Then we can find the trade card without printing on the back and call it a printers proof. If there is NO printed advertising on the card nor on the front nor on the reverse side then it is called a stock card. Most trade cards were produced in sets ( mosty 6 cards ) by very big international Company's, those were the first multi-nationals. Good examples were the big Tobaco Companies beginning 1880, big tea and coffee distributors (Arbucles), chocolate ( Suchard, Van Houten ), meat extract company Liebig's CompanyLiebig, Cibils and many others. Serials ( series, sets ) were edited sometimes on 100.000nds from each set. And the biggest collection is that from more than different 2000 sets ( +7000 variations in many languages ) by Justus von Liebig's Fleish extrakt Kompagnie. The earliest lithographic color card ( stone press print ) I have is a Rimmel Parfume card from 1862. Of course there are known earlier cards ... porcelain cards : ... but those were individual name cards from shops AND not editied in sets, this was around 1837 ( my oldest ). Trade cards are mostly found glued in very old albums or iserted in albums especialy edited for that purpose by the company's advertising department. I just wanted to make clear the difference between ---trading cards :newer ( mostly after WWII, smaller, coated, offset = 3 colors or laserprint printed, no publicity for an editing food-, drug- or product company ) AND ---trade cards : older; smaller sets of 6 or multples of 6; litho, litho chromo, chromo litho = real color up to 8 (sometimes 17 colours ); always advertising a product somtimes lifted, floating, playing in the scenic image; mostly stories ( first comic stories ); sometimes with pricing or real misleading, suggesting topic to buy the product ! victorian advertising trade cards Albert180307 11:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)Albert Van den Bosch
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