BAINES
John Baines was one of the first printers 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, showing a cricketer-&-rugby-player on the back, as part of an alternative Bradford coat-of-arms, with boar's head design.
Later, around 1885-86, Baines cards had replaced the above design with the Lion & the Unicorn crest.
There also came into being various 'special offer' backs, and other special edition cards, E.G. the "Cup Ties" backs cards which are dated with an end date for a competition, Easter 1887.
Baines also originated the blind packet, or surprise packet, for his sports cards, patenting it by the early 1890s.
Gold medal (Bradford exhibition 1893-4) backs appeared on cards during the last decade of Victoria's reign but this very same design was used by Baines' heirs well into the mid-1920s!
Cards with LTD (Ltd. or Limited) appeared after 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 - with "Ltd." The other heirs had been granted the privilege by birth, and carried on using the trading name J.Baines - without the need of "Ltd."
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. Click on the images below to see large pictures and related information.
Prices: £0 = sold. If the card is available it will show a price.
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- 1884 -85 Baines WG Grace HoF All-Time-Great rookie Babe Ruth of Cricket OFFERS - SOLD
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- 1886 Arthur Wharton ROOKIE Darlington Invincibles legend Baines - the 1st ever soccer card!
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- 1910 Billy Meredith MUFC Wales Original Baines card, rarest Meredith card out there! OFFERS please
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0- 1910 's John Baines football cards wrapper, Oak Lane -type packet, original soccercards antique
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0_ 1887 Preston North End Baines fan card with player pictured on top of fan - Ross ?
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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 Baines card Salford Herbert Cooke blue card
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1880 's Baines card Salford J Tone Tune rugby star, customized
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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
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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 Midland Counties Football Union fan-shape card by Baines Litho of Manningham
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1880's Millom Oldest amateur RLFC card Joe Moore Charles Dove Baines Litho Manningham
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1880's Parish Northend full back rugby card by Baines Litho Manningham
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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 Dennell inset on a Baines Litho fan-shaped card
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1880's Wortley Rugby club with Swainston inset on a Baines Litho club-shaped card
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1880s Asthton u Lyne Queen's Variety club Delamere Street Baines fan card
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1880s Baines Sheffield GPO card
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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 Darlington Baines heart card
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1880s Failsworth Wood rugby Baines
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1880s Firth Mossley Phosferriodine
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1880s Harry Eagles Lancashire & Salford England rugger international Baines fan card
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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 Jimmy Dodd Halifax rugby RLFC Hall of Fame inductee baines fan-shape card
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1880s Man City St. Mark's card Jarvis.jpg
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1880s New Zealand All Blacks native rugby team Smiler Ihimaira Baines card
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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 Radcliffe England Tom Kent
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1880s Sam Williams Salford Red Devils
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1880s Walsall Town Swifts Baines Pears Soap card
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1880s Walter Bumby Lancashire & Swinton Lions British Isles international Baines fan card
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1880s Wanderers FC the 5-times F.A. CUP WINNERS a *SOCCER HISTORY MUST-HAVE* Baines Pears Soap card
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1880s Wortley Leeds rugby club FAN card with Swainston Baines card
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1880s Wortley Leeds rugby club with G Marshall Baines card
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1880s Wortley Leeds rugby club with Lightowler Baines card
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1880s Wortley Swainston rugby card
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1882 1st ever Kent CCC card! Cricket ball Baines Carlisle Road Manningham card Play Up Kent
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1882 c. Baines early cricketing card Bedfordshire County Cricket Club
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1882 George Harris 2nd England cricket Test match captain for Kent CCC 1 of the first Baines cards!
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1882 Oxford University Cricket Club 1st ever card, 1of the earliest Baines sports cards
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1883 Arthur Shrewsbury Nottinghamshire County Cricket & England batsman 2nd to WG Grace Baines
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1883 Fred Spofforth Demon Bowler rookie, LEGEND HoF All-Time GREAT s/p £7,500
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1883 Hampson's Ormerod Lancashire
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1883 Jack Blackham ALL TIME GREAT cricketing LEGEND Australia ROOKIE 1st Test Match HoF s/p £4,500
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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
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1885 -86 Baines Special Cup Ties dated card Otley RFU sprinter Wise
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1885 Arthur Wharton 1st black player, 1st soccer player on a card - the 1st soccer card! OFFERS
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1885 Cambridge Uni Trinity college cricket team card by a Millom agent of Brooklyn Rubber stamps!
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1886 Dick Barlow 1st Ashes test England cricketer football referee legend 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 Darlington Quakers Dawson on an early Baines card
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1887 Grimsby Olympic Baines fan-shape football card
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1887 Jack Anderton Salford & GB rugby
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1887 UNIQUE ITEM! Blackpool F.C. W McCaffrey baines-like star card Stanley Arms Hotel
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1887-8 York Wasps rugby Baines fan
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1888 Baines York Grocers v Drapers UNIQUE
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1888 BARGAIN! Play Up Huddersfield Pearson Baines fan shape card
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1888 Bobby Peel Yorkshire CCC and England Test Match bowler on a 1888 Baines card. SOLD AS SEEN
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1888 Halifax rugby Edmund Buckley, The Little Wonder, on a Baines fan card
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1889 Halifax Buckley Dodd Baines heart
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1889 Leicester City as Leicester Fosse the earliest club card for the Foxes, a team rookie ! Baines
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1890 -92 Sunderland Crow Pears Soap Baines card
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1890 Ardwick Man City Sharpe's oval
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1890 Aston Villa Baines fan card
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1890 Baines card Cambridge rugby team swans on a lake
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1890 Baines cricket card fan shape Barrow CC Cumberland Cumbria
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1890 Baines fan card R.A. Glass Somersetshire rugby cricket
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1890 Baines Ireland Eire card
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1890 Bobby Peel Yorkshire CCC England test match bowler since 1884 Baines card Morley, AMR
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1890 Frederic H R Alderson England & Barbarians rugby legend Hartlepool Rovers Baines card
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1890 Harry Clegg Salford Baines card
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1890 J.Briggs SOMERSET CCC card
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1890 Joe Shaw Salford Baines card
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1890 Middlesbrough Redcar Baines Sharpe
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1890 Millom Cumberland Joe Moore try scorer 1895 RUCC decider Baines fan card
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1890 Paignton FC by Baines - surely the earliest card for Paignton Saints
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1890 Penzance FC - the earliest card for the Magpies - by Baines
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1890 Preston North End Sharpe's card
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1890 Richardson Captain of Werneth Chadderton FC rugby football Baines shield card Block Lane Oldham
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1890 South Africa rugby Natal team card by Baines of Bradford
£130.00