Goodwin & Company Trading Cards

Goodwin & Company Trading Cards were issued by the Goodwin & Company in order to promote their other brands and also increase the amount of sales. Goodwin & Company issued four separate trading card products in the later stages of the nineteenth century.

Main Purpose of Goodwin & Company Trading Cards
The Goodwin & Company Trading Cards were designed as a promotional product. Goodwin & Company wanted to promote their various tobacco brands by bringing out the trading cards of famous sports persona of that era.

In fact, at that point of time they were amongst the first to have done that and in the later years many companies followed their strategies.

Sets of Goodwin & Company Trading Cards
There were a number of trading card products of Goodwin & Company.

Those may be enumerated as below:
» Old Judge Cabinets
» Old Judge
» Goodwin Champions
» Gypsy Queen

Old Judge
Old Judge was the original prominent trading card product of Goodwin & Company. These cards were in circulation in the later half of the nineteenth century. There were more than two thousand different pictures in this series and these cards were printed by using albumen photo prints.
Gypsy Queen
Gypsy Queen was another trading card from Goodwin & Company. The images of the Gypsy Queen trading cards were similar as that of Old Judge. However, the Gypsy Queen trading cards were used in order to promote other products of Goodwin & Company.
Goodwin Champions
The Goodwin Champions card is also a famous Goodwin & Company Trading Cards. These cards featured fifty famous sports personalities of that time. It was the original product of Goodwin & Company that employed colored chromolithography.
Old Judge Cabinets
The Old Judge Cabinets were yet another product of the Goodwin & Company. They were basically a big set of photographs that were printed in albumen and had been formatted. They could be traded against coupons that had been mailed.