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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18887 Baines cricket card fan shape Barrow CC Cumberland Cumbria
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1889 Baines football trade card Play Up England, frame
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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 's Bobby Peel Yorkshire CCC England test match bowler since 1884 Baines card Morley, AMR
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1890 's BOLTON IRON Line Out. Play Up Football Cards by W N Sharpe
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1890 's Canada CFL gridiron card Baines
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1890 's Jack Skirrow Hunslet Baines
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1890 's Liverpool South End EVERTON interest : various Toffees players McEwen Ball Hulse etc
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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 Bradford Bulls Toohill Rugby Bradford Northern card by Baines
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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 New Zealand All Blacks native rugby team Smiler Ihimaira Baines 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 Rochdale W N Sharpe Play Up Football Cards rarity
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1890 South Africa rugby Natal team card by Baines of Bradford
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1890's / 1900 Old St. Paul's Jersey Sharpe's
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1890's Bishop Auckland Sharpe's card
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1890's Crystal Palace South Vale football card by Baines
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1890s Askam Cumberland ARLFC rugby Baines
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1890s Baines card Paddock Tom Pearson captain Schofield
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1890s Baines card Wolves player Baker AMR rear
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1890s Baines Manningham Oak Lane Wanderers club-diamond card
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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 Castleford hammond Rugby Baines
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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 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 Lidget Green Bradford cricket card by Baines
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1890s Lincoln City card by Baines
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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 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 with legend Bradford Yorks England captain Bonsor inset
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1890s Wibsey cricket club on a Baines cricket trade card
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1890s Wortley Leeds rugby club with G Marshall Baines card
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1891 Baines football trade card Play Up England, no frame football packets back
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1891 Sunderland, player Bell, Music Boxes back, rare Baines card
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1892 Man City Ardwick Davie Weir
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1893 -94 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 Clitheroe Central Baines
£75.00 -
1898 Frank Wm Milligan Yorks CCC England test cricketer SUPERB & RARE Baines card
£140.00 -
1899 1st ever IRFU or London Irish rugby club Shamrocks J.Baines Bradford litho
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1900 's Baines Chelsea Vivian Woodward rookie card GB Captain GB crest 2 Olympic Golds Save 25% cash
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1900 's Middlesbrough Baines card, roses design
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1900 29 Scouts Baden Powell scouting Ogden's Guinea Gold Sadla cards collection Boys Magazine Baines
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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 Fairburn Athletic Droylsden Manchester shield card
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1900 Baines football terms card Sheffield United a good centre dandy gent
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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 D. Summerscales footballer Bradford Parish Church team Baines card
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1900 Fleetwood in the rain, a Baines football trade card
£75.00 -
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
£90.00 -
1900s Aston Villa header Baines card
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1900s Atherton FC Church House Wigan Baines card
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