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Baseball
208 Lots
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 Lot 32. 1888 Sporting Times Giants Cigar label. Beautiful 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 litho based on the Joseph Hall Cabinet of the 1888 Champion New York Giants. 18 Players and manager Mutrie are identified in the key at the bottom. One of the greatest teams ever included 6 HOF’ers. The label has some damage in the lower left corner and a stain which barely touches the picture label. The rear was used as an accounting ledger sheet and has some pencil writing.
Minimum Bid $300.
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 Lot 33. Unusual 1895 New York Giant Cabinet. Most unusual cabinet portraying the 1895 N.Y. Giants in a composite of woodcuts. The bottom portion of the cabinet shows the Giants 1895 Home schedule. Players on the cabinet include Rusie, Van Haltren, Meekin, Knauss, etc. The woodcuts were based on photos taken in Spring Training. Ex-Copeland.
Minimum Bid $750.
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 Lot 34. N352 Consolidated Cigarette Co. Rare Discovery of 4 19th Century Die Cut cards. Most collectors have seen the 19th century die cut set of ten which was issued in a sheet. To the best of my knowledge they have never been seen in any other form until now, though the 352 entry in the American Card Catalog makes reference to them. In this lot are two of the ten cards from the set (“Boston” and “Pittsburg”) and two similar cards, apparently from an English set. All four cards have been mounted on cards that were obviously especially made for these die cuts to be glued to. The backs of the card, which indicate Consolidated Cigarette Co, make clear reference to the baseball cards and others. Good to very good.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 35. Ten volume Preston Orem series (1882-1891) — “Baseball From The Newspaper Accounts”. Most serious collectors of 19th Century are familiar with Preston Orem’s work “Baseball From the Newspaper Accounts 1845-1881”, a popular and fairly easy to find account of early baseball. Of significantly greater rarity is the eleven volumes Orem did subsequently consisting of spiral bound books. Interestingly the pages in the books are consecutively numbered and they total 628 pages. Offered here are the last nine volumes with a Xerox copy of the first volume (1882). We offered a complete set about ten years ago which went for $2,000+. We have only seen one set since. Excellent +.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 37. N172 Old Judge Fischer, Chicago Maroons. Very rare card. One of the very difficult Chicago Maroons. 1888 card has a light wrinkle in the upper left corner, otherwise, very well centered, excellent photo quality and a perfectly clean back.
Minimum Bid $750.
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 Lot 39. Two better 1889 N172 Old Judge cards. First the ambidextrous pitcher Tony Mullane, who won 284 games in the 1880’s appears on an excellent + condition card with great photo quality and a clean back. The second card is an 1889 Umpire, Wallace Fessenden and is also in excellent condition.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 40. Four N172 Old Judge Chicago N.L. players including two Maroons. The two Maroon cards, both 1888, include the great Herman Long at the start of his career, in excellent condition despite an impression in the lower left corner and Dunn in very good condition. The two National League Chicago cards are both 1887 and include Fred Pfeffer (ex-mt) and Mark Baldwin (a nice vg, with some minor paper loss along the right side).
Minimum Bid $600.
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 Lot 41. Four N172 Old Judge Boston NL players. Includes Richard Conway (1887, #055, excellent), Richard Johnston (1887, 0105, vg-ex), Bill Sowders (1889, excellent +) and Bobby Wheelock (1888, excellent +).
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 42. Five N172 Old Judge Washington N.L. players. Includes Jack Farrell (1887, #0166, ex-mt), Alex Ferson (1889, very good +), John Irwin (1888, very good), Jeremiah Murray (*1888, vg-ex) and George Shoch with Mgr. John Gaffney behind (1888, excellent +).
Minimum Bid $750.
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 Lot 45. Two N172 Old Judge cards of Arthur Irwin , the highly regarded shortstop of Harry Wright’s Philadelphia team. Both are numbered cards from the 1887 series (“076” and “079”) and are excellent.
Minimum Bid $300.
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