{"product_id":"graded-1910-s67-silks-american-indian-chiefs-geronimo-6-baseball-tobacco-card-sgc-2-5-good","title":"Graded 1910 S67 Silks American Indian Chiefs Geronimo #6 Baseball Tobacco Card SGC 2.5 Good","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏛️ \u003cstrong\u003eGraded 1910 S67 Silks American Indian Chiefs Geronimo #6 Baseball Tobacco Card SGC 2.5 Good — The SGC-Graded Antique 1910 Silk Fabric Tobacco Insert Picturing Geronimo, the Bedonkohe Apache Leader Whose Name Became Synonymous with Resistance, Endurance, and the Struggle to Defend the Apache Homeland, Preserved in the Collectible Format That the Sovereign Cigarettes Brand Created in the Final Year of His Life and That Survival Into 2025 in Any Gradable Condition Represents a Collecting Achievement of the Highest Historical Significance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏛️ The Graded 1910 S67 Silks American Indian Chiefs Geronimo #6 Baseball Tobacco Card SGC 2.5 Good is the Sportscard Guaranty Corporation-certified antique silk insert of Geronimo — the Bedonkohe Apache leader whose decades of resistance against Mexican and United States military forces in the American Southwest made his name one of the most recognized in American history and whose image the S67 Silks series captured in the silk fabric inserts distributed in Sovereign Cigarettes packs in 1910, the year following Geronimo's death on February 17, 1909, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. SGC 2.5 Good is the professional grade that reflects the survival of this silk over 115 years of existence — the structural integrity maintained, the Geronimo image preserved, the collectible format intact to the standard that Sportscard Guaranty Corporation's professional graders assigned after physical evaluation. For a tobacco silk from 1910, the survival in gradable condition is itself the remarkable achievement — these silk inserts were designed as premium inclusions in tobacco packs, not as collectibles intended for 115 years of preservation, and the percentage of the original print run that has survived in any gradable condition is a fraction of what was originally produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏛️ The S67 American Card Catalog designation identifies the set as the Sovereign Cigarettes series of silk fabric inserts distributed circa 1910 — the format that used silk as the premium insert material rather than the cardboard used by contemporary tobacco card sets, giving these inserts a tactile quality and a visual rendering of the portrait subjects that the printed-paper cardboard of T206 and similar sets could not replicate in the same way. The American Indian Chiefs series within S67 selected the most historically significant Native American leaders for inclusion — the group whose historical importance and whose visual recognition from the portraiture and photography of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century made them compelling subjects for the tobacco insert format. Geronimo, assigned card #6 in the series, is among the most recognizable subjects: the photographs taken of him by A. Frank Randall and later by other photographers created the visual record that the S67 silk artist worked from to produce the image preserved in this insert. The encounter between the commercial tobacco industry of 1910 and the legacy of a man who had died just months before their product went to press creates a historical layering that gives this silk a weight beyond its 115-year physical survival. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏛️ Geronimo. Bedonkohe Apache. 1910 S67 Silks. American Indian Chiefs. Card #6. Sovereign Cigarettes Tobacco Silk Insert. Antique 1910 Collectible. SGC 2.5 Good. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039543570664,"sku":"1910-S67S-G-6-SGC-2.5","price":249.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-1910-s67-silks-american-indian-chiefs-geronimo-6-baseball-tobacco-card-sgc-2-5-801.webp?v=1770220655","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-1910-s67-silks-american-indian-chiefs-geronimo-6-baseball-tobacco-card-sgc-2-5-good","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}