1880s/1890s
Football Cards
J. Baines
20,000+ cards
These cards are published by J. Briggs at 8 Somerby Street, Leeds and the first is printed by Alf Cooke, also of Leeds. It's likely that by the time the second card was produced J. Briggs was creating his own cards.
J. Baines - Football Cards - J. Briggs
Play Up - Lockwood Clarence
Cheers for Yorkshire County
hallo, the back of the card shows a Baines ink stamp over the Briggs design. Carl Wilks site says this is when Baines took over Briggs. Bill Duerden 's history of Baines states Baines was printing before the 1880s but it was Edward Baines then John Senior started lithography in the early years of the 1880s, designing cards employing an etcher and sending plates to Alf Cooke fpr printing.It also states that Baines took over rivals Briggs and Cromack by the mid 1880s. Incredible pamphlet full of images too.
ReplyDeleteThat's fascinating. All the years I've been tracking down images of these cards and I didn't know any of this. Wow!!
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