Lot 108.  Very rare Sporting Life Trade card set of 4. Not nearly as attractive as the very desired color trade cards that Sporting Life is known for, but much rarer. This 4 card set measures 5 7/8" x 3 1/4". Three of the four cards are in excellent mint condition. The other has a corner broken off, but is otherwise excellent. Winning Bid $2,077.

Lot 109.  P2 Sweet caporal near Pin set of 200. Missing 5 pins (Bresnahan, Doyle, Elberfeld, Mullen and Thomas, all Large Letter varieties). Overall condition is well above average. All the pins have their pinbacks and 148 of the 200 have the paper backing. 8 pins have some rust on the fronts including Bresnahan, Young and Wallace. Both Cobbs, both Mathewson, both Youngs, both Johnsons, and the tough Lajoie, all excellent or better and original. In addition, 17 of the pins have the tough red printing on the back including the Large Letter Cobb and Young. Very nice set. Winning Bid $5,704.

Lot 110.  E90-2 American Caramel set of 11 Champion Pittsburgh Pirates with 7 cards graded by SGC including Wagner. This popular caramel set features Honus Wagner and most of the other key Pirates. The Wagner card is fair-good on the front but has paper loss on the rear (see scan). The seven graded cards are: Wagner SGC 10 Poor 1, Leever SGC 60 EX 5, Maddox SGC 50 VG-EX 4, Miller SGC 40 VG 3, Hyatt & Wilson SGC 30 GOOD 2 and Leach SGC 20 FAIR 1.5. The Clarke card is good, The Adams, Phillippe and Gibson show some trimming and have some album remains on the rear (poor). Winning Bid $4,290.

Lot 111.  E90-3 American Caramel Chicago set of 20 with 11 SGC graded. Very difficult set featuring only Cubs and White Sox. The 11 SGC graded cards are as follows: Payne (SGC 80 EX-MT 6), Walsh (SGC 10 POOR 1), Tinker (SGC 30 GOOD 2), Evers (SGC 20 FAIR 1.5), Gandil (SGC 10 POOR 1), Sheckard (SGC 30 GOOD 2), Archer (SGC 40 VG 3), Purtell (SGC 20 FAIR 1.5), Hahn (SGC 30 GOOD 2), Dougherty (SGC 40 VG 3),), Blackburn (SGC 10 POOR 1). Balance: Chance (vg, back damage), Brown (trimmed, back damage), Cole (ex front, back damage), Hofman (gd), Overall (fair), Schulte (fair-good), Smith (gd, minor back damage), Steinfeldt (gd) and Zeider (gd-vg). Winning Bid $4,875.

Lot 112.  E120 American Caramel near set of 237. The three missing cards are Pie Traynor, Deacon Jones and Frank Bancroft. Beautiful set presented in "card saver" style plastics in 4 pocket black Lighthouse sheets in two quality Lighthouse albums with slipcases. As T206 was the definitive set of the 1910 era and R319 Goudey was the defining set of the thirties, E120 was the defining set of the twenties. There were 120 subjects issued for each league divided equally among the 16 teams. Highlights: Alexander (ex front, back damage), Baker (ex front, back damage), Cob(b) (vg-ex), E. Collins (vg-ex), Coveleskie (ex+), Frisch (ex), Goslin (vg-ex), Grimes (ex-mt, back damage), Hartnett (vg), Heilmann (ex-mt), Hornsby (vg-ex), Hoyt (ex-mt front, back damage), Johnson (vg-ex), Marquard (gd-vg), Rousch (vg), Ruth (vg, corner crease), Sisler (vg-ex), Speaker (ex+), Wheat (vg), Wood (ex), Youngs (gd). Balance: 84 cards are excellent or better, 104 cards very good, 28 cards fair-good. There are a few cards with some paper loss on the back and there is one card with a rare blank back (Bigbee). Winning Bid $8,565.

Lot 113.  T227 near baseball set of 3 including an SGC graded Cobb, missing only Baker. Includes Cobb (SGC 20 FAIR 1.5), Marquard (gd-vg with Honest back) and Bender (good with Miners Extra back). Winning Bid $2,855.

Lot 114.  1921 Schapira Brothers Babe Ruth Candy Box Design cards SGC graded set of 6. Six different cards of Babe Ruth, measuring approximately 1 3/4" x 2 7/16". Each candy box featured a portrait pose of Babe Ruth, while not common, is the more prevalent card found. The others, which fall in a ratio of 1:5 to the portrait are much rarer. Each has a title as printed on the box. The entire set has been graded by SGC and is the best set known. The portrait pose has not been graded higher than vg-ex and and there is no record of any of the action poses being graded. The cards and grades are Portrait (84 NM 7), Over The Fence (84 NM 7), Waiting For A High One (80 EX/NM 6), Cleared The Bags (70 EX+ 5.5), They Passed Him (70 EX+ 5.5) and Home Rub (60 EX 5). Winning Bid $2,662.

Lot 115.  W501 1922 near set of 117 missing 3. Missing are #'s 11, 23, 35 (all commons). Fifteen cards (9-Vitt, 10-Ruel, 22-Wambnganss, 34-Bush, 46-Sheely, 59-Alexander, 72-Kelly, 82-Grimm, 84-Adams, 91-Holke, 94-Myers, 96-W. Robinson, 109-Smith, 119-Nehf and 120-Fewster) do not have W501's symbolic "G-4-22" in the upper left corner or the number in the upper right corner and therefore are W575's and not W501's. Since W501's were issued in strips, it is not unusual for these to be found with irregular cuts and there are several in this ex-mt appearing collection that have been so cut. Highlights: 4-Sisler (ex-mt), 6-Heilman (ex-mt), 8-Cobb (ex-mt), 17-Johnson (ex-mt), 19-Speaker (ex-mt), 38-Collins (ex), 49-Ruth (ex), 62-Frisch (ex), 73-McGraw (ex), 103-McGraw (ex-mt), 104-Frisch (ex), 114-Hornsby (ex-mt). Balance: All are excellent or better with note to the miscutting of the cards. The collection is in high quality black album pages in a three ring binder. Winning Bid $7,139.

Lot 116.  WG5 National Game set of 50 missing Baker & McLean. Set has obviously been enjoyed as the cards are worn and most have pencil marks (see scan). Fortunately the Jackson is one of six cards without pencil marks. The others are Speaker, Bresnahan and Evers and two game cards. The pencil marks do erase fairly easily. Most of the cards including the Jackson have a light bend and possible crease in the upper left corner. Overall, without the pencil marks, a good-very good set. Included in 90%+ of the original box missing one side panel and a third of the top flap. Winning Bid $750.

Lot 117.  W517 1931 strip card set of 54. Issued in strips of 3, you can see the dotted lines at the top and bottom of many cards. An above average set with about half excellent or better including very nice Ruths and Gehrig. Highlights: 1-Combs (ex), 2-Traynor (vg), 3-Rousch (ex), 4-Ruth (vg-ex), 9-Harris (vg), 10-Klein (ex, "W517" written on back), 11-Kelly (ex), 12-Jackson (ex-mt), 14-Heilman (ex), 15-Alexander (ex), 16-Frisch (ex-mt), 19-Cuyler (good), 20-Ruth (ex+), 21-Foxx (vg, pencil scribbling on back), 23-Terry (ex), 24-Lindstrom (good), 27-Lazzeri (ex), 28-Manush (vg), 29-Hafey (vg), 30-Ott (fr-gd), 34-P. Waner (fair), 35-Gehrig (ex+-mt), 36-Vance (fair), 37-Cochrane (vg), 38-Hornsby (gd-vg), 39-Grove (ex+), 40-Simmons (ex), 42-Wilson (good), 45-Lyons (gd), 46-Sewell (ex), 47-Goslin (vg), 51-Averill (ex+), 52-Collins (ex), 54-Cochrane (good); Balance: 5 cards ex-mt, 6 cards excellent, 4 cards very good, 5 cards good. Winning Bid $2,925.

Lot 118.  R302-1 & R302-2 MP & Company sets of 24 from 1943 and 1949. Complete set of 24 1943's and near set of 24 (missing Foxx) from the more difficult1949 set. 1943 Highlights: DiMaggio (ex-mt), Feller (nr mt), Foxx (nr mt), Greenberg (ex+) and Williams (ex-mt). 1943 Balance: 9 cards ex-mt including an autographed Hubbell, 8 cards very good and 2 cards good. 1949 Highlights: Williams (ex, light stain), DiMaggio (ex, autographed). Balance: All neatly cut and ex-mt except Pesky which is stained. Winning Bid $1,210.

Lot 119.  R310 Butterfinger set of 65 including the Jimmy Foxx variation. All the Butterfingers are in individual plastic loose leaf pages with white backing sheets and display very attractively. There are twelve R310's which are excellent (Averill, Boyle, Chapman, Jimmy Collins, Dickey, Foxx (one "x"), Gehringer, Hafey, Hoyt, Mancuso, Marberry and Morrisey). The balance almost all have some degree of chipping on the borders and an occasional tear and would grade fair-good. The Gehrig is trimmed (no borders), the Ruth has three chips along the borders and a missing corner. The Foxx (two "x"s) has a chip at top with a small tear and a tear on the left side. Winning Bid $605.

Lot 120.  R311 Goudey Leathery set of 15. Near mint appearing set has some very light paste stains on the back of the premiums. Highlights: Crosetti-DiMaggio-Lazzeri (nr mt), Vaughn-Wagner (nr mt front, light white stains on rear), Ruffing (nr mt), Hornsby, Gehringer and Mack (nr mt fronts, tiny sports in corners on reverse), Foxx (nr mt), Hartnett (nr mt front some white staining and minor spots with paper residue on back. Balance: Near mint fronts with some minor spotting on back. Winning Bid $799.

Lot 121.  R312 Color tinted near Set of 47. Altock-Schacht, Pepper Martin & Bill Swift are the missing cards. Beautiful set of this condition conscious issue. Nearly all cards are very good-excellent or better. Highlights: DiMaggio (near ex), Wagner-Vaughn (vg), Allen (vg), 9 Cubs (ex+), Cavaretta-Hack-Herman-Jurges (ex), Cochrane (ex+), Cronin-Harris (vg), Cuyler (gd-vg), Cuyler-Speaker-Taylor (vg-ex), Dickey (ex), Ferrell-Van Atta (ex), Fox-Goslin-White (vg-ex), Foxx-Sewell (ex), Galan-Traynor (vg-ex), Gomez-Hoag (ex), Greenberg (ex+), Grove-Mack (ex), Hartnett + 3 (ex), Hartnett-Warneke (ex+), Hornsby (ex+), Hornsby-Sothoren (vg), Lombardi (ex), Lopez (vg-ex), Mize (ex+), Ruffing (ex), Stengel (ex), P.Waner-L.Waner-Weaver (ex). Balance: 11 cards excellent, 8 cards very good-excellent, 1 card very good. Winning Bid $2,860.

Lot 122.  R316 Kashin near set of 99 missing Hadley & Seibold. High grade set with virtually all cards excellent or better, with the great majority being ex-mt or near mint. Cards are in high quality 4 pocket Lighthouse pages in a 3 ring binder. Highlights: Berg (ex-mt), Bottomley (ex+), Combs (ex-mt), Faber (nr mt), Foxx (ex-mt), Frisch (ex+), Gehrig (nr mt), Gehringer (nr mt, o/c), Goslin (ex-mt), Grimes (ex+), Grove (ex+-mt), Hafey (ex-mt), Haines (ex), Hornsby (ex-mt), Hoyt (ex), Klein (nr mt), Lindstrom (ex+-mt), Manush (nr mt), Maranville (ex), Ott (ex+-mt), Pennock (nr mt), S. Rice (nr mt), Rixey (ex), Rousch (ex), Ruffing (ex+), Ruth (nr mt), J. Sewell (nr mt), Simmons (nr mt), Terry (ex+-mt), Todt (vg-ex), Traynor (ex-mt), Vance (ex+-mt), L. Waner (nr mt), P. Waner (ex+), Wilson (ex). Winning Bid $5,191.

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