Lot 374.  N29 Allen & Ginter near set of 44, missing the 6 baseball. There are 8 Pugilists in the set and they grade 4 excellent, 1 very good, and 3 with ex+-mt fronts but some back damage. The balance of the set grades as follows: 20 cards excellent, 12 cards very good, 4 cards good. Winning Bid $1,610.

Lot 375.  K-4 Arbuckle Coffee History of Sports and Pastimes of the World Complete Set of 50 plus variation. Most desirable Arbuckle set with baseball, golf, boxing, etc portrayed in countries of origin. Includes rare variation of #24 where otherwise identical cards are designated "Greenland or Alaska". Set is in overall excellent condition including the U.S. card (with baseball). Winning Bid $294.

Lot 376.  E229 Champion Athlete Series partial set of 18 (from 25 card set). Missing Gissing, Flanagan, Pilgrim, Erickson, McGrath, Goodwin and Cook. 5 cards excellent, 5 cards very good-excellent, 4 cards very good, 3 cards good, 1 card poor. Winning Bid $200.

Lot 377.  Group of 119 S22 Silks. Showing generic poses from several sports and representing 21 schools (Annapolis, Brown, California, Chicago, Colorado, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia and West Point. There are 18 baseball silks and 2 Hockey. Condition is almost all at least excellent with most ex-mt. Winning Bid $1,064.

Lot 378.  Group of 27 Spalding Athletic Library Books from the major sports except baseball - Boxing & Wrestling, Football. Basketball and Golf. Spalding's Athletic Library group of 3 Basketball and 4 Football books (1913-1935). Collection of seven books includes 1924 How to Play Basketball and 1931-32 and 1934-35 Women's Basketball Guides (each with tough to find complete How to Play charts); 1913 and 1916 editions of How to Play Football and 1926 and 1927 scarce Interscholastic Football Guides. All are Excellent or better although the 1934-35 Women's Basketball Guide has a small stain on front cover. 7 Boxing Spalding Athletic Library. The 1892 "Gentleman Jim" Corbett biography -- Book #1 from Spalding's Athletic Library -- is in good condition with cover tape. Four editions of Boxing (1902 Ex, 1927 Ex-Mt and two different 1929s Vg-Ex and Ex with faded cover), are loaded with photos of champions, (Dempsey, Sharkey, Delaney, Loughran, Walker, Leonard, Canzonari, Braddock, Schmeiling, Rosenbloom, Kid Chocolate, and others). There are two editions of "How to Punch the Bag" 1912 (Vg, spine damage, folded) and 1928 (Ex). Seven Spalding Athletic Library Wrestling books, 1901-1929. Seven wrestling books highlighted by a 1901 "Catch As Catch Can" instruction book in Good condition with spine damage. Three different "How To Wrestle" editions from 1905 (photos of Hackenschmidt, Jenkins, Bothner), 1929 and 1932 are Near Ex, Vg-Ex and Ex+. A 1929-30 NCAA Guide is Ex-Mint and two "Professional Wrestling" volumes (1916 and 1925) are Ex and contain photos of top grapplers of the day (Gotch, Hackenschmidt, Zbyszko, Stangler Ed Lewis). Six Spalding Athletic Library Golf Books, 1906-1935 -A group of five American books and one hard to find edition published in England. The American editions (all Ex or better) are a 1922 How to Learn Golf, 1928 Golf Guide, and three different versions of How to Play Golf (one is undated, but has a 1925 ad, plus a 1930 and a 1935 by Grand Slam Champion Bobby Jones) The English edition is a 1906 Golf Guide with false spine, covers reattached with tape, otherwise Vg. Winning Bid $514.

Lot 379.  The considerable Balance of the Spalding Athletic Library with 17 Track & Field, 8 Swimming, 10 Tennis and 53 Miscellaneous, a total of 88 books. Spalding Athletic Library Track & Field Books This collection of 17 books (16 Spalding plus one Wilson) includes two Olympic Games editions, 1916 (with full page photo of Jim Thorpe) and 1921. The rest are Almanacs for 1916 and 1941, a 1914 Rules book, and a 1928 Guide for Girls; AAU Constitution, several "How To" instructional books (hurdles, sprints, middle distances, high jump), a 1939 IC4A handbook and a 1906 Weight Throwing guide. Condition is mixed with a few of the earlier books Good to Vg but at least 12 of the later ones Ex or better. The Wilson Athletic Library book is The Track Events #52 (1923) and is Ex. Eight Spalding Athletic Library Swimming books, 1903-1937. A rare 1903 "How to Swim" is Ex and a 1919 version plus Swimming Guides from 1918, 1926 and 1937 all are Vg-Ex. A 1926 "Speed Swimming" instructional grades about Ex and a 1922 "Science of Swimming" is Vg. "Swimming for Women" from 1931 is Ex. Ten Spalding Athletic Library Tennis books, 1906-1929. All but one of these books is in at least Ex condition. There are two "Strokes & Science of Tennis," a 1906 Ex and 1920 Vg-Ex. The other volumes are a 1913 "How to Play, 1924 "The Kid," 1928 "Tennis Annual," 1928 "How to Build a Tennis Court," 1929 "Tennis for the Junior, Club Player, Expert," 1933 "Errors and Remedies, " 1933 "Tennis Simplified," and 1935" Lessons in Tennis." Many editions are loaded with photos of the top players of their era. Spalding Athletic Library Miscellaneous books, 53 different, 1892 to 1935. A highly attractive group of 52 different books covering various sports and pastimes including archery, athletic activities for women (3 - all with scarce charts intact), bowling on the green, camping (3), calisthenic drills, dumb bells, exercise (2), fencing, field hockey, gymnastics (4), handball (3), ice hockey (3), indian clubs (3), indoor polo, jiu jitsu, lacrosse, lawn sports, physical training, pushball, quoits (2), rowing, ice skating, roller skating, soccer, tumbling, volleyball (2), plus a few others. Highlights include an 1892 book on use of Indian Clubs and Dumb Bells (Ex-Mt) and 1899 Gymnastics (Vg-Ex) plus Canadian and English editions about Badminton. A dozen are Vg to Vg-Ex and the rest are Ex or better. A detailed list of the Track & Field and Miscellaneous books is available on request. Winning Bid $733.

Lot 380.  F273-27 1937 Kelloggs Pep near set of 77 stamps (of 90) in the album from the Creator's archive. The album comes from the archives of Gordon Gold, generally the largest creator of children's premiums in the U.S. Originally sold by Hakes Americana, included is a Letter of Origin signed by Gordon Hill to Hakes. The Album, which measures 14 1/2" x 10" is occasionally seen, but not like this. Usually the Spinner on the inside cover (on the back of the circular baseball panel on the cover) is gone, and almost always the detachable strip on the bottom of the front cover is gone, which contained pieces for a game that could be played. The stamps are glued in their appropriate spots in the album, and include 16 of the 18 baseball (including Walter Johnson and missing only Fonseca and Tinker), 17 of the 18 football (including Grange, Nagurski, Thorpe, etc and missing only Bill Cunningham), 10 of the 12 golfers, 11 of the 12 boxers, 5 of the 6 swimmers, 5 of the 6 tennis players and 15 of the 18 Race Horses, Race Drivers and Aviators. The album has some tape remains on the inside back cover and otherwise excellent + with the stamps being excellent to ex-mt. Winning Bid $1,100.

Lot 381.  F273-27 1937 Kelloggs Pep partial set consisting of 19 complete numbered blocks of four. Don't recall a group as large as this ever being offered. Players included are Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker and 13 other baseball, Walter Hagan, Gene Sarazen and 8 others from from Golf. Jim Thorpe, Ernie Nevers, Red Grange and 8 other football. Sheets present are #'s 1-4, 6-10, 12-14, 16-22. (Its not known to me how many numbered blocks there are but with 90 stamps, there must be at least 23. I would guess 24, with some stamps appearing on more than one sheet. All but two of the sheets are excellent or better, #13 and #16 have a light crease. A detailed list is available on request showing the players on each of the 16 sheets. Winning Bid $4,713.

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