Complete E271 Darby Chocolate Box of Mike Mowery and Bob Bescher.
Lot 2. Complete E271 Darby Chocolate Box of Mike Mowery and Bob Bescher. E271 Darby’s are one of the hobbies toughest type cards. Most of the population of E271’s. were a group of cards tacked to a wall in a garage that went through a fire. The remaining Darby’s except for two acceptably cut cards were six boxes found in upstate New York. The box of Mowery-Bescher is one of those boxes. The box is complete except for a piece of the upper flap which has been torn off. The Bescher panel has a very light barely noticeable crease. The Mowery panel is minimally excellent +. The back of the box, or more accurately the inside, is excellent except for some negligible marks probably made by the candy. We had a fire damaged card of Tommy Leach go for $1,705 in our November 6, 2002 auction and we had one of the two original non fire damaged cards of go for $4,594 in our April 2001 auction.
Minimum Bid $5,000.
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