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.
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1890s Baines Nottingham Forest card exceedingly rare relic of Forest antiquity
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1890s Bangor City FC Wales W.N. Sharpe Play Up football card
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1890s Barnsley Tykes Baines fan card
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1890s Castleford hammond Rugby Baines
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1890s Dodger Wood Heckmondwike Baines
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1890s Dukinfield CC or RFC fan-shape Baines card
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1890s Freetown City / United Sierra Leone British West Africa navy Creole sports club card by Baines
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1890s Gainsborough Trinity Pears Soap
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1890s Gregor MacGregor Middx Test cricketer & Scotland rugby Barbarians Baines card
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1890s Jack Brown Yorkshire CCC Wisden Cricketer of 1895 rare Baines cricket card
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1890s Jack Skirrow Hunslet Baines
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1890s Lidget Green Bradford cricket card by Baines
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1890s Lincoln City card by Baines
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1890s Lincoln City Pears fan Baines
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1890s Manchester Rangers FC Baines fan card
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1890s Middlesbrough Boro Baines shield
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1890s Millom ? F. Steele for Cumberland noted rugby player very rare Baines card
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1890s Millom Baines card in Gold & blue with a "Winded" legend atop
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1890s New Zealand All Blacks Baines rugby
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1890s Notts County Baines footer card
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1890s Oldham Athletic Pears Soap clover
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1890s Osbert Mackie Wakefield Trinity
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1890s Pears Soap Leeds Headingley
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1890s Sharpe Milnrow FC puzzle card
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1890s Sharpe's Wolverhampton Wanderers
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1890s Sheffield United Well Played Baines football card
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1890s St Mary's Haughton Green Pears Soap Baines Linoleum referee umpire card
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1890s Stockport FC Ogden Bailey Potts
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1890s stunning Baines Litho WIDNES rugby card
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1890s Tykes Yorkshire Baines fan
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1890s Wibsey cricket club on a Baines cricket trade card
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1890s Wortley rugby Haigh Baines
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1892 L&YR Horwich RMI Leigh Genesis FC earliest card George Calderwood Newton Heath-related Baines
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1892 Man City Ardwick Davie Weir
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1893 Liverpool by Baines, the 1st ever Liverpool F.C. card? A SOCCER RELIQUARY!
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1893 Toole Bainies card Cardiff Harlequins Newport Wales Gwyn Nicholls
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1895 Baines Fleece Blackpool W.Corry
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1895 Schofield Fleece Hotel BLACKPOOL FC Wilson 1 of the 1st soccer player cards ever!
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1895 Schofield's Fleece Hotel Blackpool Wright exceedingly rare card
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1898 Canada CFL gridiron card Baines
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1898 Clitheroe Central Baines
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1898 Frank Wm Milligan Yorks CCC England test cricketer SUPERB & RARE Baines card
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1899 1st ever IRFU or London Irish rugby club Shamrocks J.Baines Bradford litho
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1900 's Middlesbrough Baines card, roses
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1900 Airdrieonians Scotland Baines soccer card LOW PRICE
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1900 Australia rugby card by Baines
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1900 Baines Boer War card Dick Cunningham father of Spanish Civil War Jock Cunningham
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1900 Baines Boer War card Earl Ava Archibald Hamilton Temple Blackwood Dufferin & Claneboye
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1900 Baines card of Beith rfc Scotland
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1900 Baines cricket card for Bacup CC Lancashire
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1900 Baines football terms card Sheffield United a good centre dandy gent
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1900 Baines football trade card Play Up England, frame
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1900 Baines playing cards wall game card Good Throw colours
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1900 Baines Wilmslow FC card
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1900 Burslem Port Vale Gold Medal Baines football card
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1900 Clydesdale rfc rugby Scotland R A Bell Baines card
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1900 Consett trade card by Baines of Bradford
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1900 Crewe Alexandra Baines card
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1900 Fleetwood in the rain, a Baines football trade card
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1900 Hull City Baines football card
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1900 John Baines of Bradford card of Chirk F.C.
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1900 Lancashire cricket card Nelson CC Burnley rare John Baines trade card
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1900 Leeds City F.C. antique card by Baines of Bradford
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1900 Newcastle United Baines football card
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1900 the 1st ever hockey card ? St. Helen's Recs Wigan Warriors interest Baines
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1900's Baines Bradford Dolphins Lucy Sagar
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1900's Stourbridge FC Baines card
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1900s Aston Villa header Baines card
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1900s Atherton FC Church House Wigan Baines card
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1900s Baines early cricket trading card for Lancashire CCC
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1900s Baines gem works of art Chelsea football card art nouveau frame
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1900s Chelsea Edwardian Baines football card
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1900s Chorley F.C. on a J.Baines of Bradford football card
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1900s Oldham Athletic Baines football card
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1900s Oldham Athletic diamond-club-shaped Pears Soap football card Baines
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1900s Sheffield Wednesday Baines football card
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1900s Sheffield Wednesday Baines football card 6 players
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1900s Stockport County Baines football card, stunning design
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1900s Stoke City Baines card player blue black stripes
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1900s WIGAN rugby cycling Baines
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1902 Baines football trade card Play Up England, no frame football packets back
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1902 Lancashire CCC cricket Baines card with Tyldesley
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1905 Baines Boer War card Sir William Lockhart British India Army C-in-C military & golf cards
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1905 Grimsby Town Baines football card
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1905 Hull Kingston Rovers Baines game skagging card
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1905 James Hosie Manchester City Scotland Stockport County Bristol City
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1905 Johnny McMillan Small Heath Birmingham Derby County and Bradford C, Leicester Gills Baines card
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1905 Oldham Athletic Baines shield
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1905 Thomas Paton Sheffield United
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1908 Wimbledon F.C. Edwardian card by Baines
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1909 BURY F.C. by Baines Ltd
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1909 Joe Brookes Sheffield United Baines Watford
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1909 Newcastle United Baines Colin Veitch card
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