Sets and near sets

  15 Lots      

Also See lots 4-5, 50, 190-197, 217, 259, 262, 265, 283, 292, 294-6, 311, 314-5



Lot 92.  T201 Mecca near Set of 45 missing Donovan/Stroud, Dougherty/Lord, Dygert/Seymour, Herzog/Miller & Hickman/Hinchman. Highlights: Cobb/Crawford (vg-ex), Mathewson (vg-ex), Johnson (vg), M., Brown (ex+), Baker/Collins (gd), Bender (vg-ex), Chance/Evers (vg), Bresnahan/Huggins (ex), Jennings (ex-mt), Lajoie (gd), Speaker (vg+), Walsh (ex-mt), Wheat (ex), Balance: 13 excellent or better, 13 cards very good, 5 card good, 1 card fair.
Winning Bid $2,148.


Lot 93.  W513 Strip card set of 50 in 2 sheets. Actually the continuation of the W512 set, the set is numbered 51-100 in 2 sheets. Doesn't have the big names of W512 but is much more difficult. Includes 26 baseball players, 14 boxers, a few aviators including Lindbergh. There is a piece out of the lower right corner of the first sheet and a tiny chip at the top of the same sheet. The second sheet has some minor wear at the bottom. Otherwise both sheets are excellent.
Winning Bid $484.


Lot 94.  1930 Metropolitan Studio set of 30 St. Louis Cardinal prints in the original mailing envelope. Set includes Hafey, Bottomly, Dizzy Dean, Frisch, Mike Gonzales, Grimes, Haines, Martin and Rickey. All photos ex+-mt to near mint. Envelope good.
Winning Bid $587.


Lot 95.  R309-1 Goudey Premium Stand up set of 4 with 3 Goudey Company mailing envelopes. Given out as premiums by Goudey in exchange for baseball card wrappers. Exceptionally nice for these. All the stands are intact and appear to have never been used. The Ruth is in excellent + condition with note to a small circular spot in the right border probably coming about in the printing process. The NL Champion Giants is ex+-mt. The N.L. All Stars is also ex-mt and the A.L. All-Stars appears as nice but has some creasing in the lower left as well as a 1/2" reparable tear.
Winning Bid $1,331.


Lot 96.  R324 1941 Goudey Set of 33. The last of the Goudey sets and the most difficult to find in nice condition because of uneven cutting. Highlights: 20-Hubbell (vg), 21-Warstler (gd), 22-Sullivan (vg-ex, o/c), 23-Young (gd-vg), 24-Andrews (vg), 25-Arnovich (gd-vg)-, 33-Ott (ex, o/c). Balance: 9 Excellent, 5 very good-excellent, 10 very good, 2 good-very good.
Winning Bid $2,600.


Lot 97.  R330 Double Play set of 75. Very nice above average excellent + set. Highlights: 23-4 Reese (vg-ex), 31-2 Ott (vg+), 39-40 Mize-Slaughter (ex+), 57-8 Williams (ex+), 59-60 Cronin-Foxx (ex-mt), 61-2 Gomez-Rizzuto (vg), 63-DiMaggio (vg-ex), 65-6 Dickey (ex-mt), 77-8 Feller (ex), 81-2 Williams-Cronin (vg), 85-6 Greenberg-Ruffing (vg), 105-6 Grove-Doerr (ex-mt). Balance: 22 cards ex-mt or better 13 cards excellent, 10 cards vg-ex, 16 cards very good, 2 cards good;
Winning Bid $1,952.


Lot 98.  R336 1941 Playball Set of 72. Overall an excellent plus set with very nice DiMaggio and Reese cards. Highlights: 1-Miller (vg), 6-Hubbell (ex-mt), 8-Ott (vg-ex), 10-Vaughan (ex+), 13-Foxx (vg-ex), 14-Williams (ex), 15-Cronin (vg-ex), 18-Greenberg (ex), 19-Gehringer (ex), 20-Ruffing (nr mt), 39-Henrich (vg-ex), 54-Reese (ex+-mt), 60-Klein (ex), 61-V. DiMaggio (nr mt), 63-D. DiMaggio (ex-mt), 64-Doerr (nr mt), 70-Dickey (vg-ex), 71-DiMaggio (ex-mt), 72-Gomez (vg-ex). Balance Low numbers: 7 ex-mt or better 17 excellent, 5 vg-ex, 6 very good, 2 cards good; Balance High Numbers: 6 cards ex-mt or better 9 cards excellent, 1 card vg-ex;
Winning Bid $3,900.


Lot 99.  1954 Red Heart set of 33. Nice group of this popular issue. Highlights: Mantle (ex), Musial (ex, o/c), Martin (ex-mt), Ashburn (ex), Fox (ex), Schoendienst (ex), Slaughter (ex+), Snider (vg), Spahn (ex), Kiner (ex), Lemon (ex), Balance: 6 cards ex-mt, 10 cards excellent, 6 cards very good.
Winning Bid $1,171.


Lot 100.  1958 Hires Root Beer set of 58 (no tabs). Highlights: 10- Ashburn (ex-mt), 23-Reese (ex+-mt), 25-Mays (ex+-mt), 44-Aaron (ex-mt), 55-Drysdale (ex-mt), 61-Snider (ex); Balance: Almost all are ex-mt with note to the imprecise cutting that this issue is known for.
Winning Bid $977.


Lot 101.  1958 Bell Brand Set of 10. The first Bell Brand set and the toughest. Four rare cards are Podres (vg), Reese (gd-vg), Cimoli (vg) and Snider (vg, autographed). Other highlights are Campanella (ex-mt) and Koufax (nr mt). The balance are 1 nr mt, 2 vg-ex and 1 vg.
Winning Bid $2,716.


Lot 102.  1961 Post Cereal set of 202 cards with two photo variations.. Set contains a mixture of Box cards and Company cards. Highlights: 4A-Mantle (nr-mt) , 10-McDougald (ex+-mt), 23-Shaw (nr mt), 73-Estrada (nr mt), 94-Stobbs (nr mt), 132B-Clemente (vg-ex), 163-Roach (nr mt), 183-McMillan (ex+-mt), 193C-Thomas (nr mt). Balance: large majority excellent-mt, few gd-vg.
Winning Bid $1,209.


Lot 103.  1962 Post Cereal set of 200 plus 71 photo rendition variations. Beautiful set, excellent throughout with most cards ex-mt or better. Highlights: 5-Mantle (vg+-ex), 92-Siebern (ex), 101-Hodges (vg), 109-Koufax (ex),116-Coleman (ex), 127-Lynch (ex), 131-McCovey (nr mt), 140-Marichal (ex), 142-Mays (ex-mt), 149-Aaron (ex+-mt), 158-White (nr mt), 173A-Clemente (nr mt).
Winning Bid $825.


Lot 104.  1963 Post Cereal near set of 198 missing 2 (87-Jimenez and 196-Thomas) plus 26 variations. The toughest of the 3 Post Cereal sets with many rarities in very nice condition. The variations are different renditions of the photo of the card. Highlights: 15-Mantle (ex-mt), 16-Maris (ex-mt), 30-Thomas (ex), 39- Fl Robinson (vg), 53-Bunning (nr mt), 61-Adair (vg), 80-Yaz (ex+-mt), 86-Lumpe (vg), 106-Mays (ex-mt), 108-Haller (nr mt), 119-W. Davis (ex+-mt), 128-Kasko (ex), 143-Clemente (ex), 152-Aaron (ex), 162-Flood (ex), 172-Williams (nr mt), 187-Aspromonte (vg), 196-Thomas (ex). Balance: large majority excellent-mt, few gd-vg.
Winning Bid $1,612.


Lot 105.  Complete Peters Meats set of in 26 complete original panels. 1961 set commemorating the Twins first year includes Harmon Killebrew, Jim Kaat, Zoilo Versalles, etc. Thick cards, which were heavily waxed and issued as part of the package design for Peters Meats products. Beautiful set with near mint to mint cards and ex+-mt to near mint panels.
Winning Bid $1,065.


Lot 106.  Good group of 10 off beat sets or partial sets. Includes 1944 N.Y. Yankees stamps set of 30 neatly pasted in original album (vg-ex); 1957 SOHIO Gas Cleveland Indians set of 18 including Roger Maris and album. Album vg, photos near mint; 1957 SOHIO Cincinnati Reds set of 18 (4 are pasted into album and 1, Frank Robinson has been damaged, others are nr mt); 1958-60 LA Dodger pictures partial set of 10 (of 16) including Alston, Drysdale, Hodges and Snider (ex); Set of 4 1958-61 Falstaff San Francisco Giants team pictures (vg-ex); Set of 24 1962 Union Oil/Volpe Dodgers drawings (ex+-mt); 1969 N.Y. Daily News N.Y. Mets Portfolio of Stars set of 20 plus holder with Ryan and Seaver, album vg, drawings nr mt; 1973 Dean's Photo service set of 31 of San Diego Padres; 6 diff. (nr mt) 1974 Dean's Photo Service Padres (nr mt); 1975 Dean's Photo service set of 30 of San Diego Padres (nr mt);
Winning Bid $500.
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