Sets and near sets

  43 Lots       »   



Lot 88.  WG2 National League Fan Craze near set of 52 missing F. Clarke and Wagner. Very nice condition with most near mint including Beckley, Chance, Hanlon, Huggins, Kelley and McGraw, Bresnahan, Duffy, McGinnity, Nichols and Willis are ex-mt. Mordecai Brown is very good as are two others.
Minimum Bid $2,000.


Lot 89.  WG3 American League Fan Craze near set of 45 and title card. Missing Chesbro, M. Cross, Dineen, Griffith, Lajoie and Mack. Highlights: Bender (vg-ex), J. Collins (ex+-mt), Crawford (ex-mt), Flick (vg-ex), Ban Johnson (near mint), Joss (ex-mt), Keeler (ex-mt), Plank (vg), Waddell (nr mt), Wallace (nr mt) and Young (ex-mt). Balance are all ex-mt except for two which are very good.
Minimum Bid $1,250.


Lot 90.  T227 Champions set of 4 baseball. Ty Cobb (fr-gd, cut badly at bottom), Home Run Baker (good, lower left corner crease, possibly slight trim at bottom), Rube Marquard (vg, light creasing at top) and Chief Bender (good, vertical crease).
Minimum Bid $750.


Lot 91.  W516 set of 30. Almost all cards are excellent or better including the 3-Johnson (ex-mt), 4-Hornsby (ex-mt), 5-Cobb (ex-mt), 6-Speaker, 27-Mathewson. The 10-Ruth is excellent with a small border on the right. The 2-Alexander has a piece of tape across the top and 3 commons are very good and one is good.
Minimum Bid $500.


Lot 92.  Near set of 96 M101-2 Supplements and near set 11 M101-7 Sporting News. The historic M101-2 issue of 1909 to 1913 is missing only 4 (Cobb, Wagner, the 1909 Detroit team and the 1910 Chicago team). Highlights: Joe Jackson (vg-ex, appears nr mt with a very light horizontal crease), Cobb and Wagner shaking hands (vg-ex), Mathewson (ex-mt), Young (ex), Speaker (ex), Alexander (ex-mt), Johnson & Street (vg-ex), Plank (ex), Mack (ex), etc. Balance: Overall very nice. Most are vg-ex and better. A couple are lesser with missing pieces. The M101-7 set is missing the two team pictures, the condition averages vg-ex except for the Ruth which is missing a small piece in the top border.
Minimum Bid $1,250.


Lot 93.  M-Unc. Complete set of 24 1909 Boston Herald Supplements and 5 Supplements to the Boston Sunday Post Both Supplement issues featuring Boston players. The Herald supplements, very similar to the M101-2 Sporting News set were issued over 12 weeks, 1 Brave and 1 Red Sox each week. The Sunday Post supplements are even rarer and it is assumed they were issued similarly but no dates are on the supplements. The Herald set includes Speaker, Hooper and Cicotte. The Post group includes Cicotte. Condition averages good-very good.
Minimum Bid $600.


Lot 94.  M-unc. Blums Baseball Bulletin set of 11. Seven are the smaller 9 1/2” x 13 5/8” (Collins, Daubert, Evers, Speaker, Johnson, Lajoie and Maranville). Four are the larger 11 1/2” 13 3/4” (Donovan, Groh, Grove and McAvoy). Ex-mt.
Minimum Bid $750.


Lot 95.  W-unc. Detroit Team set set of 23. Postcard sized, this is an unheralded difficult set. It features the A.L. Champs Tigers from 1934. The set features Hank Greenberg, Charlie Gehringer, Mickey Cochrane, Goose Goslin, etc. In 1988, in an article in “The old Judge” the idea of a 23 card set was speculated on, and the possibility of a 24th card was considered. To date, to the best of my knowledge a 24th card has never been found. An extremely rare set. Almost all are ex-mt or better including the 4 HOF’ers.
Minimum Bid $1,000.


Lot 96.  W554 near set of 17 missing O’Doul. Highlights: Ruth (gd), Gehrig (vg), Foxx (ex), Ott (ex), Grimes (ex), Grove (gd), Cochrane (ex), Simmons (gd-vg), Klein (vg-ex, no name at bottom variety). Balance: Gd-vg.
Minimum Bid $500.


Lot 97.  1938 Set of 6 Dixie Lid premiums including all four baseball and two football. Baseball are Carl Hubbell, Wally Moses, Bob Feller and Jimmy Foxx. All are minimally excellent. Football are Sammy Baugh and Bronco Nagurski, both excellent.
Minimum Bid $400.


Lot 98.  R303B/C near set of 23 missing Greenberg and R309-2 Goudey Premium partial set of 7. Latter includes Greenberg (vg-ex), Auker (gd-vg), Bartell (vg), Berger (gd), Cochrane (gd-vg), Ott (fr-gd) and Red Sox (poor). R303B/C Highlights: DiMaggio (ex-mt), Feller (poor), Dickey (gd-vg), Foxx (vg), Gomez (ex), Herman (ex-mt), Cronin (vg), Appling (vg), Lombardi (ex), Ott (poor), Simmons (ex-mt), Vaughn (ex). Balance: 9 very good, 1 good, 1 poor.
Minimum Bid $500.


Lot 99.  R310- Butterfinger set of 65 including both Foxx’, Highlights: Ruth (vg), Gehrig (vg), Foxx (vg-ex), Fox (ex-mt), Dean (ex), Johnson (ex). Balance: 10 cards excellent or better, 16 cards very good, 24 cards good. 6 cards fair, 3 cards poor.
Minimum Bid $750.


Lot 100.  Partial sets of R311 Glossy and Leathery sets. The R311 Leathery contains 13 of the 15 missing Harder and Mack. Highlights: Crosetti-Lazzeri-DiMaggio (gd), Vaughn-Wagner (ex), Hornsby (ex), Foxx (gd-vg), Gehringer (ex), Hartnett (ex-mt), Ruffing (vg-ex). Balance: 3 excellent, 2 good, 1 fair. The R311 Glossy contains 22 of 27 missing Martin, Rowe, Red Sox-no sky, 1935 Cubs and 1935 Browns. Highlights: Dean (gd, phs), Foxx (vg, remnants on back), Greenberg (gd-vg), AL All Stars (vg-ex), 1935 Braves with Babe Ruth (ex), Brooklyn (ex-mt), NL All Stars (ex-mt), Yankees (gd). Balance: 4 excellent, 3 very good, 5 good, 2 poor.
Minimum Bid $600.


Lot 101.  R312 Color tinted Set of 50. Highlights: DiMaggio (gd), Wagner-Vaughn (vg), Allen (gd), 7 Cubs (gd), Cavaretta-Hack-Herman-Jurges (vg), Cochrane (gd), Cronin-Harris(vg), Cuyler (fr-gd), Cuyler-Speaker-Taylor (ex), Dickey (gd), Ferrell-Van Atta (gd), Fox-Goslin-White (vg), Foxx-Sewell (gd-vg), Galan-Traylor (vg), Gomez-Hoag (ex), Greenberg (gd), Grove-Mack (vg), Hartnett + 3 (ex), Hartnett-Warneke (gd-vg), Hornsby (fr), Hornsby-Sothoren (vg), Lombardi (poor), Lopez (vg), Mize (gd), Ruffing (ex), Stengel (vg), P.Waner-L.Waner-Weaver (gd). Balance: 6 cards excellent, 9 cards very good, 6 cards good, 1 card fair, 1 card poor.
Minimum Bid $750.


Lot 102.  R313 National Chicle Fine Pen Set of 120 Nice clean set. Highlights: 8-Berg (vg), 35-DiMaggio (near ex), Wagner (ex-mt). Balance: 74 cards excellent, rest gd-vg with the great majority very good.
Minimum Bid $750.
 »   Next: Lots 103 to 117







Copyright ©1999-2024, Lew Lipset - oldjudge.com

Auction System powered by Zaz Corp., call 1-888-292-9267