T3 Turkey Red Cabinet 1910-11

1910-1911 · American Tobacco Company

Premium 1910-11 cabinet cards issued by Turkey Red Cigarettes. 100 baseball cards across two series — large, hand-colored portraits.

Key Facts

Release: 1910–1911
Manufacturer: American Tobacco Company
Distribution: Premium mail-in redemption via Turkey Red cigarette coupons
Card stock: Lithographed cabinet card, approximately 5¾″ × 8″ — substantially larger than tobacco-insert cards of the era
Printer / Designer: Printed by American Lithographic Co., New York
Series: Series 1 (#1–77) · Series 2 (#78–126)
Total cards: 104 — 100 Base Set | 4 Variations

Ty Cobb (#9)
Cabinet-card scale gives Cobb arguably his most striking pre-war portrait.
Christy Mathewson (#27)
Mathewson in Giants flannels, full-color portrait at cabinet size.
Walter Johnson (#99)
Series 2 short-print — Johnson is among the harder T3 stars to find.
Cy Young (#42)
One of Young's final contemporary issues before retirement.
Tris Speaker (#36)
Pre-trade Red Sox Speaker, a year before his MVP campaign.
Nap Lajoie (#23)
Player-manager of the Cleveland Naps, the team that bore his name.
Mordecai Brown (#1)
The set leadoff — Three Finger Brown holds the prestigious #1 slot.
Joe Tinker (#35)
Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance — the Cubs double-play combo at cabinet size.
Johnny Evers (#16)
Second base half of the Cubs infield trio immortalized by Adams's poem.
Addie Joss (#19)
Issued just before Joss's untimely 1911 death — among his last contemporary cards.
Chief Bender (#80)
Series 2 short-print of the Athletics' big-game pitcher.
Sam Crawford (#5)
Wahoo Sam — still the all-time triples leader, paired in Detroit's outfield with Cobb.