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19th Century
29 Lots
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 Lot 34. N284 Buchner Gold Coin Hoss Radbourn. Type 3 card of the great Boston pitcher. Real portrayal of Radbourn and his fingers are where theyre supposed to be. Minor soiling on an excellent front. The back is perfectly clean. Excellent + overall.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 35. N284 Buchner Gold Coin Tim Keefe. Beautiful Type 3 card of the Giant HOF pitcher. Clean well centered front with slight soiling on the rear. Excellent +.
Minimum Bid $600.
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 Lot 37. N284 Buchner Gold Coin John Ward. Well centered card with slight soiling on the back. The HOF’er was a shortstop, a pitcher (perfect game in 1880), an owner and organized the Players League. Excellent +.
Minimum Bid $750.
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 Lot 38. Nice condition Group of 17 Buchner Gold Coins. 9 are from 1st Series and include Hines, Dailey, Barkley, Andrews, Burdock, White, Phillips, Burns and Getzein. One 2nd Series St. Louis card of McGinnis (good) and 7 tough 3rd series cards of Andrews (vg-ex), Kilroy, Deasley, Strauss, Esterbrook, Seery and Meyers. All but the McGinnis and Andrews are excellent or better and have ads on the back.
Minimum Bid $1,250.
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 Lot 39. 1880’s Set of 10 die cut baseball players. Very popular set rarely found in this condition. No creases and no parts (balls, bats, etc) missing. Reverses show some paste stains or paper as usual. Excellent +.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 40. N300 Mayo Billy Hamilton, Philadelphia. Extremely nice card of the Philadelphia Hall of Fame outfielder, who was part of the greatest outfield that ever played with Sam Thompson and Ed Delehanty. The Hamilton has an excellent appearance, very little border and a clean black back. There is a light scratch on the rear of the card.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 42. N370 Lone Jack Doc Bushong. Lone Jacks are among the hobbies rarest cards. Excellent examples went for $5,000 + in both our April auctions and Robert Edwards May auction. They share the same poses as the Old Judge Browns Champion subset. The card of Bushong, the Browns catcher, is especially nice . There is a diagonal corner crease in the lower left , a bit of paper loss (1/4”) in the right border and soiling on the rear. Extremely desirable.
Minimum Bid $1,250.
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 Lot 43. N370 Lone Jack Bob Carruthers. Lone Jacks are among the hobbies rarest cards. They share the same poses as the Old Judge Browns Champion subset. Carruthers was one of the 19th Centuries most interesting players carrying top credentials as a pitcher and a hitting outfielder. The card has a very good image with soiling and some paper loss on the rear. There is also some minor separation in the paper layers, which is easily reparable. Good-very good.
Minimum Bid $900.
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 Lot 44. N370 Lone Jack Rudy Kemmler. Lone Jacks share the same poses as the Old Judge Browns Champion subset. This Lone Jack shows his name as “Kimler” despite the fact the Browns Champions has the almost correct “Kemler”.The card is soiled and the paper layers are separating. A very rare card, but only fair.
Minimum Bid $600.
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 Lot 45. N690 1887 Kalamazoo Bat Team card of the Athletics. One of six team cards in the Kalamazoo Bat set. Key players include Harry Stovey (top row, 2nd from left) and Wilbert Robinson (top row, 2nd from right). Excellent + photo quality, a 1/2 crease is in the lower right side of the card and a 1/2” light crease coming up from the bottom in the middle.
Minimum Bid $2,000.
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 Lot 46. 4 WG 1 Playing Cards. Bennett, Detroit (vg front, back damage), Seery, Indianapolis (excellent card but for chipped lower right corner), Meyers, Washington (gd, vertical crease on right side, spot of back damage) and Bastian, Philadelphia (good).
Minimum Bid $300.
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 Lot 47. Interesting Newspaper supplements including pages cut from 1888, 1906 North American and beautifully colorized prints from Harpers There are eight Harpers woodcuts, six of which have been beautifully hand colored. These include 1882 Metropolitans, 1882 Providence, 1865 Atlantics, 1882 Chicago, 1874 Boston and 1883 Metropolitans. The other 2 are 1886 Champion players and a Harpers photoprint page featuring the 1897 Boston Beaneaters. One print from 1888 features a rare print of the Athletics. 8 are team pictures from the period published in a magazine supplement and are the same photos produced by LEVYTYPE used in the famous book Athletic Sports In America. The teams are Louisville, Columbus, the Athletics, Brooklyn, Kansas City, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Each has the players ID’d at the bottom. The reverse carries another major team picture, but because they didn’t line up the same the Ids were trimmed off. The 1906 North American Prints are Philadelphia NL, Chicago AL and Washington, the only three known. Generally excellent.
Minimum Bid $400.
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