1915 Ornate Pink Border Grocery Cards
Cards measure 2-1/8" X 3-1/2" and are very similar to what The Movie Card Website refers to as 1917 Banquet Movie Picture Stars, except that the backs on these are blank and that there is no line underneath the film stars name naming the studio that they are under. I am referring to these as "Grocery" cards because on the blank back on each of the cards in the batch we acquired is a handwritten grocery list, complete with prices. For example, the back of the Tom Mix card depicted at the left has a list including articles such as "cheese -35," "pepper -5," and "bread -36." Since there are no other identifying factors and since they are not the same as the Banquet cards I am referring to these by what I see as the best description possible.
As to the decided upon date of 1915, I put together clues found within the text of each of the 13 different cards acquired. Most concrete are the examples of Maurice Costello, on whose card it is mentioned "with Vitagraph seven years." Well, Costello joined Vitagraph in 1907 and left in 1915. Combining this with information from the Ruth Roland card, "Plays leads for Balboa," and information borrowed from the IMDb, which states that Ms. Roland left Kalem for Balboa in 1915, we have decided upon the 1915 date.
To back this up there are film titles mentioned on a few of the cards which, once again according to the IMDb, fall before this 1915 date. Examples can be found on the card of Mabel Trunnelle, whose card mentions three film titles: "Maid of Honor" (1913), "Ann" (1913) and "The Man From the West" (Trunnelle not billed in either version on the IMDb, but films date 1912 and 1914). Also, Carlyle Blackwell's card mentions the title of his debut film, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1910), and Florence La Badie's card mentions "The Million Dollar Mystery," a film in which she appears in two different versions, once in 1914 and again in 1918. I'm going to assume the card is referring to the 1914 date.
Following are images of each of the 13 cards I have seen:
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