Country of Issue: USA
Year of Issue: Early to mid 1920s
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set:
Card Size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8"
Issued as insert with what product: Came out of coin-operated arcade machines
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Issuing Company: Exhibit Supply Company Country of Issue: USA Year of Issue: Early to mid 1920s Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: Card Size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8" Issued as insert with what product: Came out of coin-operated arcade machines |
Notes: Checklist incomplete. At the moment, this checklist is a conglomeration of multiple Exhibit card sets that have some similar characteristics. The main characteristics that all these sets share are that they were all issued in the early 1920s and they all have a black & white color. There are some characteristics that are easy to differentiate between different sets, and some other characteristics that make it harder to differentiate.
There is another group of cards which I am calling Exhibit Brown Early 1920s Movie Stars that could also be grouped with these cards, as they were also issued during the same early 1920s time period. The only reason I'm making a separate checklist for those cards is the color difference, though that group also contains cards from multiple sets.
For some of these groups of cards, it is very difficult to tell whether a card belongs in a particular set or not. At this point in time, I'm just lumping them all together to get a checklist going for these cards. If strong evidence comes out about the differentiation of sets within this checklist in the future, I'll split them up appropriately.
These cards have been around for almost 100 years and I am not aware of any definitive checklist ever being produced for these cards. I think it is better to start a checklist for these cards all lumped together and to have something to work with in the future than to leave them undocumented as they have been for so long.
Date info:
Cards with the design shown above, with the star's name centered at the bottom of the cards in script, with a movie title listed below, show movies from 1919 through 1922, so I'm placing a date of 1922 on these cards.
There are many groups that do not contain reference to a particular movie, so those are more difficult to date.
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