{"product_id":"graded-1924-ogdens-ltd-leaders-of-men-thomas-alva-edison-17-baseball-tobacco-card-psa-7-near-mint","title":"Graded 1924 Ogden's LTD. Leaders of Men Thomas Alva Edison #17 Baseball Tobacco Card PSA 7 Near Mint","description":"\u003cp\u003e🔬 \u003cstrong\u003eGraded 1924 Ogden's LTD. Leaders of Men Thomas Alva Edison #17 Baseball Tobacco Card PSA 7 Near Mint — The Professional Sports Authenticator PSA 7 Near Mint Certified 1924 Ogden's Ltd. Leaders of Men Tobacco Card of Thomas Alva Edison, Card Number 17 in One of the Most Celebrated British Cigarette Card Series Ever Produced, Graded and Preserved in a Format That Makes a Century-Old Piece of Printed Ephemera Available to the Collector and History Enthusiast Alike\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🔬 The Graded 1924 Ogden's LTD. Leaders of Men Thomas Alva Edison #17 Baseball Tobacco Card PSA 7 Near Mint is the Professional Sports Authenticator-graded example of Thomas Alva Edison's card in the 1924 Ogden's Ltd. Leaders of Men series — a British cigarette card program that featured portraits and biographical information about the figures whose names had shaped the course of human history. Card number 17 in the series belongs to Edison: the inventor, entrepreneur, and one of the most prolific creators of practical technology the world has ever produced. Graded PSA 7 Near Mint, this card has survived a full century in extraordinary condition, and its authentication and encapsulation by PSA ensures that the next century will preserve it just as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🔬 Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, and over the course of a life that spanned eighty-four years, he acquired 1,093 patents in the United States alone — a record that has never been approached by any other individual inventor. His contributions to everyday modern life are so pervasive that it is difficult to imagine the physical world without them: the phonograph, the practical incandescent light bulb, the motion picture camera, and the foundations of the electrical distribution system that powers the modern world all bear the unmistakable stamp of his creative obsession. Edison's Menlo Park laboratory — the world's first industrial research facility — became the template for how technology companies approach the systematic development of new products, and the culture of innovation he established left an imprint that echoes through every center of technological development in the modern economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🔬 Cigarette cards were inserted into packages of tobacco products as collectible premiums throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — a marketing device that became one of the most popular forms of mass-produced collectibles of the era, with millions of cards produced by companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Ogden's Ltd. was a Liverpool-based tobacco company whose card series became particularly celebrated for the quality of their printing, the breadth of their subjects, and the authority of their biographical texts. A 1924 Ogden's card of Thomas Edison, graded PSA 7 Near Mint, is a piece of printed history — a hundred-year-old artifact that connects its owner to both the biography of one of the most important figures in the history of technology and to the golden age of the cigarette card as a collectible medium. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🔬 Thomas Alva Edison. Milan, Ohio. Inventor. Phonograph. Light Bulb. Motion Picture Camera. Menlo Park. 1,093 Patents. 1924 Ogden's LTD. Leaders of Men. Card #17. Tobacco Card. PSA 7 Near Mint. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039554515176,"sku":"1924-OLTD-TAE-17-PSA-7","price":499.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-1924-ogdens-ltd-leaders-men-thomas-alva-edison-17-baseball-tobacco-card-psa-7-665.webp?v=1770226781","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-1924-ogdens-ltd-leaders-of-men-thomas-alva-edison-17-baseball-tobacco-card-psa-7-near-mint","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}