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18 Lots
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 Lot 1. 1877 Lowell Baseball Club - A book of Cabinet photographs. An astounding book, which I believe has never been offered at auction before and only one other copy is alleged to exist. The volume shows pages, which must be described as cabinet photos with cabinet card size and thickness. There are 11 photos in all, of Lowell Club players including Samuel Wright (brother of Harry and George), Alonzo Knight, Charles Foley, Dennis Sullivan, Samuel Crane, A.W. Whitney, John Piggott, William Hawes, Frank Whitney, Revilo Cook and Eugene Stoughton. Each page is 5 3/4" x 7 7/8" with the actual photos measuring 4" x 5 5/8", positioned on a page with a gold border surrounding the picture and a thin black line border around that. Each player has his name and position pre-printed on the page below the gold leaf frame line. The spine needs some minor repair, but otherwise the book is in excellent condition. Recently a CDV has appeared showing the exact same 11 portraits in the book. A remarkable volume which will become the cornerstone of any advanced baseball book or photo collection.
Winning Bid $11,000.
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 Lot 2. Exhibit Supply Co. 1923-4 complete set of 58 including the nearly impossible Ruth. Unquestionably the toughest of all the exhibit sets. Would be the most difficult exhibit set known even without the Ruth card. With the Ruth it becomes one of the most difficult sets in the hobby surpassing the E90-1 and even T206 with the Wagner. The pose is identical to the very common 1921 Ruth except a white border was added. Extensive research could only find five copies of the Ruth in existence, including the one in the set here (please see our article on Exhibits and the Ruth card from the 1923 set elsewhere in the catalog). I've only seen the 1923 Ruth Exhibit offered at auction three times. Once by Lelands in a large lot of exhibits in the 1980's, in our November 2003 auction, when it went for $13,783 and in our April 2006 auction when the same card from 2003 sold for $3,993 with an unreached limit of $12,543. For more details on this research and the Ruth card please click on the Old Judge character on our web page or send an email. Condition is varied but overall a well above average set. Many cards have a small price lightly written in pencil (indicated by an * after the grade) and easily erased. Highlights: Ruth (a very good-excellent appearance on the front, the back had five spots of black album remains as well as a small spot of paper loss less than the size of a dime (see scan), Stengel (ex, *), Bottomley (vg, *), Hartnett (ex+, *), Gonzalez (ex+, *), Luque (ex, but "really Ivy Wingo" is written on the front and back., Sewell (ex, *), Simmons (vg, *) and McGraw (nr mt, *), The balance are uniformly excellent or better on the front however almost all have a pencil price mark on the back and some have more extensive writing. The Willie Kamm card is autographed.
Winning Bid $23,546.
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 Lot 3. R318 Batter Up Set of 192 with wrapper and 4 High Grade SGC High numbers. Nicest Batter Up set I've ever seen. 50% ex-mt or better and 66% excellent or better. Many of the cards graded very good have been graded because of the tiny crease that is often found in the small area that connects the die cut portion to the top of the card. Highlights: 3-Lopez (ex+-mt), 5-Hubbell (ex-mt), 6-Terry (nr mt, short), 8-Bottomley (vg-ex), 10-Ferrell (vg-ex), 14-Traynor (nr mt), 16-Hafey (ex), 17-L. Waner (vg-ex), 21-Vaughn (vg), 23-Gomez (nr mt), 24-Averill (gd-vg), 25-Cochrane (vg), 27-Ott (nr mt, but short), 28-Foxx (vg), 30-Dickey (ex), 31-Grove (nr mt), 32-Cronin (ex-mt), 33-Frisch (vg), 34-Simmons (ex), 35-Hornsby (vg-ex), 36-Lyons (vg), 37-Maranville (vg-ex), 42-Gehringer (ex), 45-Lazzeri (ex-mt), 57-Greenbeerg (gd-vg), 64-Dean (ex+-mt), 73-Wilson (nr mt), 77-Manush (vg), 85-Goslin (nr mt), 86- (SGC 50 VG-EX 4), 98-Webb-Moses (nr mt), 100-Traynor (nr mt), 111-Hayes-Lyons (vg-ex), 113-Averill (nr mt), 115-Andrews-Bottomley (nr mt), 117-Dickey (SGC 80 EX-MT 6),119-Lyons (ex+-mt), 122-Lindstrom (ex), 124-Appling (ex), 126-R. Ferrell (nr mt), 129-Lombardi (nr mt, piece of tape on rear), 130-Gehringer (nr mt), 136-Hartnett (ex, tiny pieces of tape on rear), 138-Herman (vg), 144-Foxx (SGC 60 EX 5), 145-Medwick (ex+-mt), 149-Berg (SGC 70 EX 5.5), 153-Grove (vg-ex), 156-Durocher (vg), 157-L.Waner (ex), 173-Frisch (vg-ex), 179-Bottomley (nr mt), 182-Crosetti (nr mt), 183-Cronin (nr mt), 185-Klein (ex-mt). Balance Low Numbers: 17 cards ex-mt or nr mt, 16 cards excellent, 17 cards very good, 2 cards good. Balance High Numbers: 55 cards ex-mt or near mint, 24 cards excellent, 9 cards very good, cards good.
Winning Bid $25,901.
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 Lot 4. 1880 Worcester Ruby Legs Postcards. Three historic and almost assuredly, one of a kind, postcards. The earliest known baseball postcards. drawn by a famous political cartoonist named F.E. Pollack during the 1880 season with apparently one card for many games of the Worcester team's first season in the National League. While it seems there should be others, the three cards offered are the only cards known to exist. Drawings of others are illustrated in an extremely rare book (I've never seen anything other than a xerox) called "Ups and Downs of the Worcester Baseball Club League Season 1880". The postcards measure 5 1/8" x 3", were all postally used, with a Worcester postmark (probably in 1880) and were all sent to a Miss E.M. Bacon in Albany New York.. The first game represented on the postcards was from May 27th. Worcester lost to Providence 4-1 and the card notes "... Tho' 4 games out of six, aint so bad after all", referring to the fact that Worcester, despite the loss, had won 4 of the 6 games with Providence to that point in the season. The second post card represents two games against Buffalo on June 4th and 5th. The card depicts a Buffalo and makes no comments. The final postcard was from June 10th and represents a 5-0 shutout win for Worcester against Cleveland. It is interesting to note the next game (on June 12th) was James Lee Richmond pitching the first perfect game in major league history for Worcester against Cleveland. The cards are in excellent condition. Included is a Xerox copy of the "Ups and Downs..." book (not certain it's complete) and a copy of the 1880 Worcester schedule with results and their roster. In addition to Richmond, the Worcester club had several prominent players highlighted by rookie Harry Stovey, Charlie Bennet, Al Buschong, Bill McGunnigle, Art Irwin and others. Originally in the collection of pioneer collector from Schenectady New York named Bill Knapp in the early 1980's.
Winning Bid $7,260.
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 Lot 4a. 1925 Exhibit Co. of America Lou Gehrig Rookie Card. PSA Graded Excellent 5. The first card of Gehrig, issued in the 128 card Exhibit set, the 4th baseball set issued by the Exhibit Company of America. An SGC 6 went in a recent auction for over $25,000. This one appears to be almost as nice as that one.
Winning Bid $9,075.
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 Lot 5. R306 Butter Cream near set of 29 missing the impossibly rare Babe Ruth. Essentially a rarely offered complete set. The backs are all the more common variety with the Butter Cream address on the back except for Linstrom (sic) which is the tougher back without mention of Butter Cream. Highlights: Averill (ex+-mt), Cochrane (ex+), Cronin (fair), Foxx (gd), Frisch (vg), Grove (ex-mt), Hartnett (vg-ex), Klein (ex-mt), Lindstrom (vg), Lyons (ex), Simmons (gd-vg), Terry (ex+), L. Waner (gd-vg), P. Waner (vg), Wilson (ex), Balance: 2 cards ex-mt, 4 cards excellent, 7 cards very good, 1 card good.
Winning Bid $9,746.
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 Lot 6. Six United States Presidents signed baseball. Monumental ball represents the Presidency from 1969 to 2000. Signed by Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton. The ball comes from the personal collection of a famous sports personality and Television personality, who met all six presidents on several occasions..Nixon, Carter and Reagan signed in bacl ball point, Ford and Bush in blue ball point and Clinton in black felt tip over the Official Bobby Brown American League Ball designation. All signatures rate 9/10 or better. Mike Guiterrez COA.
Winning Bid $6,050.
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 Lot 7. R319 Goudey set of 239 missing the #106 Lajoie with all the Ruths and Gehrigs have been SGC graded. A very nice collectible set with nearly half the cards (48%) excellent or better and (79%) vg-ex or better. 35 cards have writing (mk) in the form of small initials on the back, or tape or glue on the back, the common cards have been graded without regard to the backs. Highlights are as follows: 53-Ruth (SGC VG 3), 144-Ruth (SGC VG 3), 149-Ruth (SGC VG 3), 181-Ruth (SGC VG 3), 92-Gehrig (SGC GD-VG 2), 160-Gehrig (SGC VG-EX 4), 1-Bengough (vg), 2-Vance (gd-vg), 19-Dickey (vg-ex), 20-Terry (ex+), 22-Traynor (ex, mk), 23-Cuyler (vg-ex), 25-P.Waner (vg), 29-Foxx (vg-ex, mk), 31-Lazzeri (ex), 35-Simmons (ex+), 42-Collins (vg-ex), 44-Bottomley (vg-ex), 47-Manush (ex), 49-Frisch (vg-ex), 56-Ruffing (vg-ex), 60-Hoyt (vg-ex), 63-Cronin (ex), 64-Grimes (vg), 76-Cochrane (ex), 89-Speaker (vg-ex, mk), 103-Combs (ex), 107-Manush (ex), 109-Cronin (ex, glue), 110-Goslin (gd-vg), 117-Maranville (vg), 119-Hornsby (ex). 125-Terry (ex+), 127-Ott (vg), 128-Klein (ex-mt), 133-Lindstrom (ex, mk), 134-Rice (vg), 138-Pennock (vg), 147-Durocher (ex-mt), 154-Foxx (ex, mk), 158-Berg (vg-ex), 164-L. Waner (ex), 165-Sewell (vg-ex), 168-Goslin (ex), 187-Manush (vg-ex), 188-Hornsby (ex), 189-Cronin (ex), 194-Averill (ex), 197- R. Ferrell (vg-ex), 202-Hartnett (ex), 207-Ott (ex), 211-Wilson (vg-ex), 216-Gomez (ex, glue), 220-Grove (ex), 222-Gehringer (ex), 223-Dean (ex), 227-Herman (vg-ex), 229-Vaughan (ex), 230-Hubbell (ex), 234-Hubbell (vg, mk on rear), 236-G.Davis (ex). Balance of set: 89 cards excellent or better, 61 cards vg-ex, 23 cards very good, 4 cards good.
Winning Bid $13,643.
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 Lot 8. Complete R327 National Chicle Low Number set of 1-96, all SGC Graded with 30 cards 7 or better. Offered is about as nice a set of Diamond Star low numbers one could hope to find in one group. There are 96 different cards plus one variation (82-Babich) in the high grade run of the 1-96 series. Nearly 50% of the 97 cards are graded ex-mt or better and nearly 80% are excellent or better. (see Lot 127 for the high number balance of the set). Highlights: 1-Grove (50 VG/EX 4), 2-Simmons 60 EX 5), 11-Dickey (70 EX+ 5.5), 16-L Waner (60 EX 5), 17-Frisch (60 EX 5), 32-Rice (84 NM 7), 34-Hack (88 NM-MT 8), 39-Hubbell (84 NM 7), 42-Dykes (88 NM-MT 8), 44-Horsnby (40 VG 3), 45-White (88 NM-MT 8), 48-R. Farrell (88 NM-MT 8), 50-Ott (80 EX-MT 6), 54-Greenberg (80 EX-MT 6), 59-Bottemley (86 NM+), 62-Frankhouse (92 NM-MT+ 8.5), 63-Jackson (84 NM 7), 64-Foxx (50 ,VG/EX 4), 65-Bonura (88 NM-MT 8), 66-Medwick (84 NM 7), 77-Gehringer (80 EX-MT 6), 79-Hudlin (88 NM-MT 8), 82-Babich (88 NM-MT 8), 83-P. Waner (88 NM-MT 8). Overall there is one card graded 8.5, 7 cards graded 8, 3 cards graded 7.5, 19 cards graded 7, 17 cards graded 6, 7 cards graded 5.5, 23 cards graded 5, 10 cards graded 4, 6 cards graded 3 and 2 cards graded 2, A detailed listing of all the cards and their grades is available on request.
Winning Bid $18,997.
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 Lot 9. Very rarely offered 1928 Pacific Coast league near Set of 31. Only missing the Dudley Lee card (A xerox is provided). This was the only minor league issue of the Exhibit Supply Co featuring 32 cards representing the six teams in the Pacific Coast League. The cards are blue tinted and bear a striking resemblance to the major league set of blue exhibits issued in 1928. While several players played in the majors or were about to, most notable is the card of HOF'er to be Earl Averill (good). Other familiar names are Walter "Dusty" Mails (the Mails card game set, is elsewhere in this auction, excellent, pinhole), Jimmy Reese (ex), "Ping" Bodie (vg, pinhole), Smead Jolley (ex+-mt), and Lyn Lary (excellent, pinhole). 12 cards have a pinhole, most of these are excellent otherwise. 4 cards are excellent, 4 cards are very good and 3 cards are good. The Sheely and Twombley cards are very good-excellent and autographed in pencil. The Dittmar card has a chipped corner. We offered a set in our November 2004 Auction and it went for $13,784+.
Winning Bid $8,054.
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 Lot 10. E285 Rittenhouse set of 52. A set you almost never see offered. Rittenhouse offered cards with a somewhat crude picture of a ballplayer with one of the letters that would spell "RITTENHOUSE CANDY COMPANY' on the back. A rarer back had a prize list on the reverse. The 52 cards would form a deck of cards on the front. 43 of the cards include a letter back and 7 have the prize back. It is commonly believed that Rittenhouse made some of the letters very difficult or nearly impossible to find to avoid having to give out many prizes. The subjects include 24 Hall of Famers, nearly half the set Highlighted by two Babe Ruths, one excellent +, the other vg, but short at top. Other Highlights include Bottomley (gd), Cronin (ex+), Cuyler (ex-mt), George Davis (ex-mt), Foxx (ex), 2Frisch (vg-ex, ex+), Grove (vg-ex), Hafey (vg-ex), Hartnett (ex-mt), Herman (ex+), Hornsby (ex+), Klein (vg-ex), Ott (vg-ex), Simmons (ex), Terry (vg), Traynor (vg), 2 L. Waner (ex-mt, ex), 2 P. Waner (vg, vg-ex) and 2 Wilson (ex, vg). Balance: 9 cards ex-mt or better, 13 cards excellent, 4 cards very good, 1 cards fair-good.
Winning Bid $5,000.
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 Lot 11. V117 1923 Maple Crispette near set of 29 missing the impossible #16 Stengel with nice SGC grades on Ruth and Johnson. Rarely offered set in uniformly nice condition with only two cards having light creases. Highlights: 2-Traynor (vg-ex), 3-Schalk (vg-ex), 4-E. Collins (ex-mt), 7-Hoyt (ex), 8-Ruth (SGC 40 VG 3), 12-Sewell (vg-ex), 19-Bottomley (vg-ex), 21-Harris (vg-ex), 22-Cobb (ex, tiny speck of paper loss at bottom border line), 25-McKechnie (ex, tiny speck of paper loss on left side), 27-Pennock (vg), 28-Roush (vg-ex), 30-Johnson (SGC 70 VG-EX 5.5); Balance: 2 cards ex+-mt, 4 cards excellent, 5 cards very good-excellent, 4 cards very good, 1 card good.
Winning Bid $9,435.
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 Lot 12. Scrapps set of 18. Very rarely offered 19th Century set featuring 9 die cut cards each of the 1888 American Association Champion St. Louis Browns and N.L. Champion Detroit Tigers. The players are the starting lineups for each team. The condition of the Browns is outstanding. Not a crease to be seen and some light staining as is usual. The backs of the Browns have a piece of album page which has actually helped maintain the stability of the cards. Highlights: Comiskey (excellent, a light stain across the uniform), Brouthers (excellent), Thompson (hat has broken off and has been taped back, heavy stain), Hanlon (tiny 1/4" crease and small stain on neck), White (light crease, piece of tape on rear, o/w excellent). Detroit Balance: 1 excellent, 2 very good, 2 good.
Winning Bid $5,857.
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 Lot 13. N28 Allen & Ginter near complete set of 49 missing Comiskey and including 3 high grades by SGC. (A cut of Comiskey from the Allen & Ginter album is included). Highlights: Anson (vg), Bennett (ex-mt front, back has transparent paste remains), Carruthers (nr mt front, back has album remnant), Clarkson (SGC 60 EX 5), Glasscock (excellent), Kelly (ex front, back has album remnant and paste stain), Keefe (nr mt front, back has album remnant), Mulvey (SGC 70 EX+ 5.5) and Ward (SGC 84 NM 7), Sullivan (ex+), Dempsey (ex), Oakley (gd-vg). Balance: Boxers (2 ex, 1 vg, 2 gd-vg, 3 gd), Wrestlers (2 ex, 1 vg, 2 gd-vg, 2 gd), Rest (7 ex, 9 vg, 6 gd).
Winning Bid $7,088.
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 Lot 14. R320 1934 Goudey complete set of 96 with both Gehrigs SGC graded. Extremely nice set with 57% excellent and better with high numbers 80% excellent or better. Highlights:1- Jimmy Foxx (gd-vg), 2- Mickey Cochrane (vg-ex), 6-Dizzy Dean (ex front, pencil marks on rear), 7-Durocher (ex), 10-Chuck Klein (ex), 11-P. Waner (ex), 12-Carl Hubbell (vg), 13-Frank Frisch (vg-ex), 18-Heine Manush (ex), 19-Lefty Grove (vg-ex), 21-Bill Terry (ex, trimmed), 22-Arky Vaughan (vg), 23-Charlie Gehringer (vg-ex), 27-Luke Appling (ex), 34- Chick Hafey (vg), 35-Ernie Lombardi (vg), 37-Lou Gehrig (SGC 40 VG 3), 61-Lou Gehrig (SGC 50 VG/EX 4), 62-Hank Greenberg (vg-ex), 84-Derringer (nr mt), 90-Cuyler (ex), 91-Camilli (ex), 96-Jim DeShong (near ex). Balance Low Numbers: 4 cards nr mt, 7 cards ex-mt, 19 cards excellent, 20 cards very good, 4 cards good; Balance High Numbers: 5 cards ex-mt, 10 cards excellent, 3 cards very good, 2 cards good;
Winning Bid $6,443.
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 Lot 15. R327 National Chicle complete set of 108 plus a variation. Well above average set with over 60% excellent or better and over 80% very good or better. The variation is #82 Babich, four high numbers have tape residue on the rear. Highlights: 1-Grove (gd), 2-Simmons (vg-ex), 3-Maranville (ex), 9-Cochrane (ex), 11-Dickey (ex), 14-Terry (vg-ex), 16-L.Waner (vg), 17-Frisch (vg), 18-Hafey (ex-mt), 27-Traynor (ex), 28-Lopez (ex), 30-Manush (vg-ex), 31-Cuyler (ex), 32-Rice (ex+), 35-Averill (vg), 36-Lombardi (ex-mt), 39-Hubbell (vg-ex), 43-Lyons (ex-mt), 44-Hornsby (vg-ex), 48-R. Ferrell (ex), 50-Ott (ex), 54-Greenberg (vg), 59-Bottomley (vg), 60-Ruffing (ex), 64-Foxx (vg), 66-Medwick (ex), 74-Lazzeri (vg), 77-Gehringer (vg-ex), 83-P.Waner (ex), 97-Lopez (ex), 99-Traynor (vg), 100-Averill (vg), 103-Dickey (fr-gd, tape stains on rear), 105-Lombardi (vg); High Number balance: 1 card very good, 2 cards good, 5 cards fair; 85-96 Series: 7 cards excellent including Appling & Crosetti, 2 cards very good-excellent, 3 cards very good, Balance: 16 cards excellent-mint, 26 cards excellent, 5 cards very good-excellent, 9 cards very good;
Winning Bid $5,324.
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