Doctoring of a baseball card refers to the, some would say nefarious, process of altering a damaged or poor condition card to make it appear as if it was in a better original condition. Some examples of doctoring a card include trimming, coloring or flattening.
This T3 Turkey Red cabinet card features third baseman Art Devlin of the New York Giants. Devlin was a prolific base swiper, leading the National League in that category for the year 1905.
This particular card is number 10 in the Turkey Red set. If you want to learn more about the T3 Turkey Red set there is one site to visit and here it is.
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A cabinet card is a card that was created during the mid-19th century and was used generally for the purpose of display in something like a curio cabinet. The cards generally measured 4.25 x 6.50 inches.
Some T3 Turkey Red cards, circa 1911, as seen below, are highly sought after cabinet cards.
A “blank back” card is simply a baseball card with, most likely, a picture or image of a particular baseball player on the front of the card, and no words or other printing on the back.
