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Exhibits
25 Lots
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 Lot 176. Group of 4 seldom seen rare exhibits including Ruth & Gehrig. Group includes 2 4-in-1's not produced by the Exhibit Co and two exhibits showing celebrities on a background of stamps, one of which includes Babe Ruth. The two stamp cards are the "15" and "50" denominations from a larger set. The latter includes Ruth, Tom Mix, Jack Dempsey, Lindbergh, Charlie Chaplin and 3 other prominent entertainers. The other card shows 8 cowboys and entertainers. Both cards are in excellent + condition. The two rare 4-in-1's show poses from the Set 83 Exhibit series and the W517 set (both elsewhere in this auction) in what is believed to be a set of 4. One card contains Gehrig-Grove-Donahue-Cochrane. It has no creases but the unused postcard back shows some staining. The second four in one shows Judge-P. Waner-Kamm-T. Jackson and is near excellent with a clean postcard back.
Winning Bid $1,997.
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 Lot 177. Group of 3 very rare Mixed sport 4-in-1's with Ruth, Cobb and Johnson. Little is known about these unusual 4-in-1 exhibits. The cards usually consist of two baseball poses and either two boxing poses or movie poses. The baseball poses match the poses in the Anonymous Company Sets 81 and 82 (elsewhere in this auction). The first card portrays Babe Ruth and Rogers Hornsby at the top and boxers Mickey Walker and Georges Carpentier below. The corner is clipped at the upper left. Has a minor pencil mark on the back and is otherwise clean. The second card shows Joe Judge and Ty Cobb at the bottom and fighters Eugene Criqui and Dave Shade above. The card has a stain at the upper right and is otherwise excellent. The final card shows Walter Johnson and Al Simmons at the top and Gene Tunney and Benny Leonard below. The card is heavily creased. All three have the familiar "NOT TO BE USED IN EXHIBIT MACHINES" post card back.
Winning Bid $1,465.
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 Lot 178. Set 62 Exhibit Supply Company set of 20. Overprinted version of the set originally produced by the Eastern Exhibit Co. A beautiful set with all the cards near mint including Ruth, Cobb, Johnson, Hornsby, Alexander, Bancroft, Collins, Faber, Heilmann, Schalk, Speaker and Wheat. The Cobb and the Bush have the bottom cut into the team name.
Winning Bid $3,222.
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 Lot 179. Set 81 Anonymous Company near set of 31 plus color variations of Fournier and Hornsby. A low grade set missing the McQuillan card. Highlights: Bottomley (ex), Cobb (ex), Frisch (fair-good), Harris (gd-vg), Heilman (good), 2 Hornsbys (both good), Johnson (gd), Kelly (gd-vg), Rixey (vg), Rousch (vg), Ruth (fair-good), Simmons (gd-vg), Williams (e-mt). Balance: Fair to very good Two common cards have postcard backs.
Winning Bid $3,141.
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 Lot 180. Set 82 Anonymous Company set of 28. As nice a set as I've ever seen. Near mint or better. Every card appears near mint or close to it and is either pink or green tinted. The highlights, which include Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Johnson, Hornsby, Paul Waner, Sisler, Speaker, Rousch, Rixey, Simmons, Heilmann, Harris, Hartnett, Faber, Fritsch and Bottomley are all ex+-mt or near mint, as is the balance of the set. All with postcard backs and the "Not to be Used in Exhibit Machines" statement. The postcard backs are off center in some cases including the Ruth.
Winning Bid $14,823.
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 Lot 181. Set 83 Anonymous Company set of 16 with extras color variation cards of Klein and Waner. A very popular set filled with All-Stars. All with postcard backs and the "Not to be Used in Exhibit Machines" statement. Set is an overall ex-mt. Highlights: Ruth (ex+), Gehrig (ex-mt), Cochrane (ex+), Foxx (ex+), Grove (ex+-mt), Hornsby (ex), Klein (ex+), Simmons (ex+-mt), Traynor (ex+-mt), Vance (ex+), P. Waner (ex+-mt) and Wilson (ex). The extra Waner has a very good front and has paste stains and album remnants on the rear. The extra Klein has an insignificant wrinkle on the front and is otherwise ex-mt.
Winning Bid $9,190.
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 Lot 182. 1939-47 Salutation set of 89 cards including all listed variations and several others. Very high grade set with almost all cards ex-mt or near mint. Highlights: Averill (near mint but for tiny speck of paper loss on rear), Dean (ex+-mt), DiMaggio-dark brown (nr mt), DiMaggio-light brown (vg-ex), Foxx (ex+-mt), Gehrig (nr mt), Greenberg-very truly yours (ex+mt), Grove (nr mt), Hartnett (nr mt), Holmes (ex-mt), Hubbell (nr mt), Johnson (nr mt), Klein (ex-mt), Kreevich (nr mt), Lombardi-Cordially (ex+-mt, small pencil marks on rear), Medwick (ex-mt), Newsom-Sincerely (nr mt), Ott-LL (nr mt), Reiser-LL (ex+-mt), Rizzo (ex+-mt), Russell (nr mt) and Williams #9 (nr mt, but tiny spot of paper loss in upper left corner). Balance of set average ex-mt with a couple of minor cards less.
Winning Bid $4,719.
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 Lot 183. 1947-66 Exhibit Set of 353 with all the team cards, listed variations plus many additional color or print varieties. Virtually the entire set is excellent and better and it should be noted the more recent cards which contain all the rarities, all grade near mint and better. An outstanding set. Highlights: Team cards (12 cards ex-mt or better, 2 cards ex, 2 cards very good), Banks, script (ex), Brandt (ex), Clemente (nr mt), Colavito, Port. (nr mt), Cunninham, batting (ex-mt), Daley (ex), Doby- 2 vars. (ex-mt, nr mt), Drysdale, Port. (ex-mt), Ford, Port. (nr mt), Hubbs (ex-mt), Jensen (ex-mt), Killebrew, Port. (ex+-mt), Koufax (nr mt), Kranepool (nr mt), Kubek-dark (ex-mt), Lemon, left arm (ex), Mantle, batting, while outline (ex), Mantle, batting, no outline (ex), Mantle, Portrait (nr mt), Mantle, batting full (nr mt), Maris (nr mt), McCoskey (ex), Musial, batting (nr mt), Musial, kneeling-2 vars. (ex, vg-ex), Paige (ex-mt), Powell (nr mt), Richardson (ex-mt), J. Robinson (ex-mt), Roe (ex-mt), Sievers, Browns (ex), Skowron (ex+-mt),Ward (nr mt) and Yaz (ex-mt). Balance: Almost all ex-mt or near mint, A few lesser. Autographed cards are Baumholtz, Jerry Coleman, Lopat and Runnels.
Winning Bid $4,290.
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 Lot 184. Four Miscellaneous Exhibit sets. 1948 Hall Of Fame set of 33 including both Ruths. Highlights: Ruth (ex+, trimmed at top), Ruth-10 bats (nr mt), Cobb (ex-mt), Gehrig (ex-mt), Johnson (ex-mt), Mathewson (ex+-mt), Wagner (ex+-mt), and Young (ex+). Balance: All ex+-mt to mostly near mint. Also included are 11 1948 Hall Of Fame Green variations additional more difficult green tint variations including Ruth (vg), Cobb (ex-mt), Johnson (ex), Young (ex), Alexander (vg-ex) and Wagner (ex-mt). All other green tint cards ex+-mt or better. 1961 stat backs set of 32 & 1962 stat backs set of 64. The 1962 set is near mint and the 1963 set is ex-mt. 1960-1 Chicago set of 24 (nr mt).
Winning Bid $1,465.
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 Lot 185. 1953 Canadian exhibit set of 64. Very difficult set. The last series, mostly containing players from the International League's Canadian teams are not difficult, however about a dozen of the major league players from the first 32 cards, including Joe DiMaggio, are very tough. The first series (1-32) all have a green (5 cards) or purple tint (27 cards). The second series, which has many familiar names such as Sandy Amoros, Tommy LaSorda and Stan Musial, among others have either a blue tint (25 cards) or a brown tint (7 cards). All cards near mint including DiMaggio (green), Robinson (purple), Campanella (purple) & Williams (purple).
Winning Bid $5,069.
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