BAINES
WANTED WE PAY CASH FOR THESE CARDS, BAINES MANNINGHAM LITHO CARDS, W N SHARPE CARDS, BRIGGS SOMERBY STREET CARDS, O'TOOLE & ALF COOKE CARDS - GUARANTEED BEST PRICES PAID !
We want your John Baines of Bradford Manningham Litho Baines Ltd cards shields golfballs cricket cards, all collections whether huge or modest for personal collections held here and by our clients. If you have cards with 63 65 & 72 Carlisle Road, or 15 North Parade, or 32 Oak Lane; or cards issued under the Pears Soap monicker, or by Briggs of 8 Somerby Street Leeds, Alf Cooke of Leeds, W N Sharpe of Bradford, also in Manningham; cards from George Yard Barnsley or Gillingham. Loose cards or cards in scrapbooks / albums also paid for. The top prices paid are paid by us because we are a collective of collectors; we can afford more!
John Baines was one of the first producers of soccer cards, and he may have been the very first, starting his business in the early 1880s.
The earliest known Baines cards date to around 1882-83, having been printed by Alf Cooke in Leeds, with Lucky Bags backs or rubber stamp marks to the rears advertising Baines' tobacco emporia.
During 1883, cards showing a cricketer-&-rugby-players coat-of-arms design on the back appeared for the first time. This design was redrawn for cards issued for 1885.
Later, during 1885-1886, Baines cards had replaced the sportsman design with the 'Royals Beasts' lion & unicorn arms..
Baines printed various 'special offer' backs to his sports cards. The 1886 "Cup Ties" backs cards offer an April 1887 end-by date for an annual competition (they ran until Easter, each year).
Baines originated the idea of selling cards in a 'blind' packet, i.e. a surprise packet, which he originally called Lucky Bags. He finally patented the packet in the 1890s but the cards had been registered at earlier dates, the earliest being logged as a protected design by 1886.
Gold medal (Bradford exhibition 1894) backs appeared on cards during the last few years of Victoria's reign, 1897 onwards, but this very same design was used by Baines' heirs well into the mid-1920s! Most Gold Medal backs date from after 1909.
Cards with LTD (Ltd. or Limited) appeared in and following 1909 when two strands of Baines's family inherited the business from John Baines estate. One heir had to create a Limited Company, with shares, to use the name J.Baines Ltd - it always appears with "Ltd." by law. The other heirs had been granted the privilege of family name by birth, and carried on using the trading name of the father, J.Baines - without the need of "Ltd." company status
Baines cards were made until the mid-1920s, the latter types often being being printed on quality, thick cardstock..
For far more on Baines please see my books and the timeline, linked above.
Click on the images below to see large pictures and related information.
Remember: prices = £0 means a card is sold. If the card is available it will show a price.
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* 1883 Baines WG Grace Flag type The Babe Ruth of Cricket THIS IS SOLD SEE BETTER on GOTGOTNEED.CO
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* 1883 Fred Spofforth Demon Bowler Baines rookie card LEGEND HOF All-Time GREAT only 1 known!
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* 1883 Jack Blackham Baines cricket LEGEND Australia 1st Test Match HOF rookie card - only 1 known
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* 1886 Arthur Wharton ROOKIE CARD Darlington F.C. Baines THE WORLD's 1st-EVER SOCCER CARD ! Offers !
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* 1888 -89 season Newton Heath Everton Bury Burnley fixture card South Shore Blackpool comb league
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* 1888 -9 Baines-like fixture card Blackpool FC with captain Corry Bury Nelson Combination League
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* 1892 West Riding Tom Broadley also England, Bradford FC captain Baines card, Union & League
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* 1900's England GB captain Baines Chelsea Vivian Woodward RAREST card - WON x2 Olympic soccer Golds
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* 1918 complete J. Baines packet + 2 cards cricket card Dudley Hill rugger London Scottish set of 3
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- 1883 Arthur Shrewsbury Nottinghamshire County Cricket England batsman only 2nd to WG Grace Baines
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0- 1910 's John Baines football cards wrapper, Oak Lane -type packet, original soccercards antique
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0_ 1910 s John Baines football cards wrapper Oak Lane -type packet original soccercards antique BLUE
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1878 J.Pilkington Glass St. Helens Recs, card made by Ormerod Brothers before Baines
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1880 's - 1890 Osbert Mackie Wakefield Trinity by W N SHarpe
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1880 's Baines Sheffield G.P.O. Pears Soap card
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1880 's Ormerod Bros Rochdale Hornets St Clements Ben Ridehaugh J Groves
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1880 's Ormerod Bros. Oldham Borough Park Hotel card
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1880 's Salford Red Devils & Wigan W Jack Anderton British Lions NZ & OZ tourist
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1880 Broadbent card of Walker of Huddersfield ad Will Eagland's restaurant card, like Baines
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1880 J.Briggs SOMERSET CCC card
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1880 Manchester FC shield 1st card?
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1880's Eccles Borough United on a very rare Baines saddle-shape card
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1880's Rotherham Town Fred Turner Baines card
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1880's Wakefield Trinity rugby club card rugby players Hutchinson & Bartram inset Baines Litho
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1880's Wortley Rugby club with Swainston inset on a Baines Litho club-shaped card
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1880s AMAZING Williamson of Ashton card Oldham CFC club Albert Hotel Mumps advert rear
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1880s Bingley Leach Baines
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1880s Brown Litho Ashton Denton F.C. baines-like card
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1880s Burnley FC very early Baines Clarets card
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1880s Chorley's Railway Hotel Kirby Kendal Richardson football card
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1880s Firth Mossley Phosferriodine
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1880s Holt The Hatter cards a trio of Rochdale Hornets St Clements
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1880s Huddersfield Paddock rugby club HALF TIME DRINKS card by Baines
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1880s Huddersfield Paddock rugby club SCHOFIELD and PEARSON card by Baines
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1880s Hulme Manchester Baines card
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1880s Man City St. Mark's card Jarvis.jpg
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1880s Ormerod Bros Holt The Hatter Rochdale Hornets 2 St Clements
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1880s Ormerod Ulverston rugby football Tom Howard Coach & Horses Inn card
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1880s Oxford blue boat race and rugby card by Baines Litho of Manningham
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1880s Pears Soap Leeds Tykes Headingley FC trade card
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1880s Radcliffe England Tom Kent
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1880s Walsall Town Swifts Baines Pears Soap card
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1880s Wortley Leeds rugby club hat pin badge card Swainston Baines card
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1880s Wortley Leeds rugby club with Lightowler Baines card
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1880s Wortley rugby Haigh Baines
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1880s Wortley Swainston rugby card
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1883 -84 Saul Wade Baines Alf Cooke Hope Foundry Cricket Club Yorks.
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1883 Baines early cricketing card Bedfordshire County Cricket Club
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1883 George Harris 2nd England cricket Test match captain for Kent CCC 1 of the first Baines cards!
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1883 Hampson's Ormerod Lancashire
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1883 Oxford University Cricket Club 1st-ever card, 1 of the earliest Baines sports cards!
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1883 Pears Soap Fred Bonsor Bradford England rugby captain see newspaper photo!
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1884 *LEGENDARY SPORTSMAN* Henry Barrington "Tim" Tristram England Rugby XV & Durham CCC W.N. Sharpe
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1884 1st ever Kent CCC card! Cricket ball Baines Carlisle Road Manningham card Play Up Kent
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1884 Failsworth Wood rugby Baines
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1885 Cambridge Uni Trinity college cricket card by a Millom Brooklyn Rubber stamps! like Baines
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1885 Gainsborough Trinity FC Baines Pears Soap trade card
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1886 Baines card Salford J Tone Tune rugby star, customized
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1886 L&YR Horwich RMI Leigh Genesis FC earliest card George Calderwood Newton Heath-related Baines
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1886 Baines card Cambridge rugby team swans on a lake
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1886 Baines card Salford Herbert Cooke blue card
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1886 Baines Ireland Eire card - dated on the back
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1886 Baines Special Cup Ties DATED card of Wise, Otley RFU sprinter on a smaller type shield
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1886 Dodger Wood Heckmondwike Baines early card of great rarity
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1886 Halifax RUFC Edmund Buckley Jimmy Dodd Baines heart
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1886 Herbert Cooke Salford Red Devils Little Wonder early John Baines shield card
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1886 Herbert Cooke Salford red rugby international England John Baines Bradford shield RED card
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1886 Millom Oldest amateur RLFC card Joe Moore Charles Dove Baines Litho Manningham
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1886 Parish Northend full back rugby card by Baines Litho Manningham
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1886 Sam Williams Salford Red Devils rugby England legend early rare Baines card
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1887 Dukinfield CC or RFC fan-shape Baines card
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1887 -88 Baines cricket card Meltham Mills Ephraim Lockwood England Yorks Captain cricket legend
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1887 Aston Villa Baines fan card
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1887 Baines fan card R.A. Glass Somersetshire rugby cricket
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1887 BARGAIN! Play Up Huddersfield Pearson Baines fan shape card
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1887 Barnsley Tykes Baines fan card
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1887 Darlington Quakers Dawson on an early Baines card
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1887 Halifax rugby Edmund Buckley, The Little Wonder, on a Baines fan card
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1887 Harry Eagles Lancashire & Salford England rugger international Baines fan card
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1887 Jack Anderton Salford & GB rugby
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1887 Jimmy Dodd Halifax rugby RLFC Hall of Fame inductee baines fan-shape card
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1887 London Scottish Baines fan-shaped card rugby earliest card
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1887 Manchester Rangers FC Baines football fan card a great rarity
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1887 Millom Cumberland Joe Moore try scorer 1895 RUCC decider Baines fan card
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1887 Preston North End Baines fan card with player pictured on top of fan - Ross ?
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1887 UNIQUE ITEM! Blackpool F.C. W McCaffrey baines-like star card Stanley Arms Hotel
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1887 Walter Bumby Lancashire & Swinton Lions British Isles international Baines fan card
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1887 Wanderers FC the 5-times F.A. CUP WINNERS a *SOCCER HISTORY MUST-HAVE* Baines Pears Soap card
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1887 Wortley Leeds rugby club FAN card with Swainston Baines card
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1887 Wortley Rugby club with Dennell inset on a Baines Litho fan-shaped card
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1888 -1890 Manchester Hurrah W N SHarpe Play Up Football Card, like Baines but rarer
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1888 -89 1st ever Sunderland AFC card by W.N. Sharpe - soccer!
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1888 Asthton u Lyne Queen's Variety club Delamere Street Baines later type fan card (1887 patent)
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