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Sets and near sets
23 Lots
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Also See lots 2-5, 7, 76-88 185, 193, 219-220, 222-223, 225, 285-289, 299, 301, 303-304, 306, 308-9, 311, 313, 321-322, 326-333, 336, 339-343, 345-346
 Lot 53. 1928 W502 set of 60. This is the earlier of two different W502 sets. A second very similar set was issued in 1931. A beautiful high grade set. Highlights: 6-Ruth (vg-ex, card appears near mint, but there are a couple of nearly invisible wrinkles in the lower right), 13-Hornsby (ex-mt), 26-Gehrig (vg-ex), 27-Cobb (ex), 28-Speaker (ex-mt), 44-Alexander (ex-mt), Balance: 35 cards ex-mt or near mint, 10 cards excellent, 10 cards very good.
Winning Bid $5,363.
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 Lot 54. W504 1925 Universal Toy New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodger sets. Universal Toy issued three sheets of cards featuring the 3 New York baseball teams and Washington. They consisted of a large team picture and 16 small numbered pictures in four rows featuring players of that team. It is not unusual to find the players cut from the sheets and offered as cards. In this lot are complete 16 card sets of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants. The Giant set includes McGraw, Jennings, Frisch, Kelly, Wilson and Youngs and the Dodgers include Grimes, Vance and Wheat. Almost all of the cards are neatly cut although differing in size. Two cards have slight damage including Wilson.
Winning Bid $393.
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 Lot 55. W554 complete set of 18. Unusually large 5 x 7 set of cards from an unknown maker. A set of Sepia pictures of the stars of 1930. All cards in this set have name, position and team pre printed below which is the more common and desired variation. Cards are also known without captions at the bottom. The set is complete including the rare Waite Hoyt card, which the price guides do not recognize as being rare. Hoyt is the only horizontal card in the group. Interestingly the Ruth card is the best condition card in the group. Highlights: Ruth (nearly ex-mt. Tiny corner wrinkle upper right corner margin), Gehrig (vg front, some paste stains, a signature and minor paper loss on rear), Hoyt (vg-ex), Foxx (vg-ex). . Balance: Cards almost all have a very good to excellent appearance, with no creases. A couple have minor pieces of paper on the rear and one has an ink signature
Winning Bid $1,100.
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 Lot 56. R313A Gold Medal “Extended Set” of 6. The Gold Medal set is generally considered to be an extended World Series set of R313 Fine Pens featuring 6 members of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers, opponents in the 1934 World Series. For reasons that remain a mystery, 6 additional cards were produced of 6 additional players which are remarkably rare with only a few copies known of each. Possibly the first time all six have ever been offered. The six players are Al Simmons (excellent front with some album page remains of the rear), Chuck Klein (hairline 1” crease and with some album page remains of the rear), William Rogell (excellent), George Earnshaw (near excellent),Odell Hale (excellent), and Joe Vosmik (some creasing in two corners on front, and used as a postcard on the rear. Mailed in 1935 from Minneapolis.
Winning Bid $2,000.
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 Lot 57. R319 Goudey near set of 231 missing the #106 Lajoie and 8 others. Missing are #27, 29, 53-Ruth, 88, 106, 149-Ruth, 158, 211 and 220. A nice collectible set with half the cards very good or better. Highlights are as follows: 144-Ruth (fr-gd), 181-Ruth (vg-ex appearance, slight paper loss on rear), 92-Gehrig (vg), 160-Gehrig (gd-vg front, back damage at bottom), 1-Bengough (fr-gd), 2-Vance (vg), 19-Dickey (fair), 20-Terry (fair), 22-Traynor (good), 23-Cuyler (good), 25-P.Waner (vg), 29-Foxx (), 31-Lazzeri (gd-vg), 35-Simmons (poor), 42-Collins (fair), 49-Frisch (gd-vg), 56-Ruffing (vg-ex), 60-Hoyt (good), 63-Cronin (good), 64-Grimes (ex+-mt), 76-Cochrane (fair), 89-Speaker (fair), 109-Cronin (ex+), 110-Goslin (gd-vg), 119-Hornsby (good). 125-Terry (vg), 127-Ott (gd-vg), 128-Klein (gd), 154-Foxx (good), 188-Hornsby (good), 207-Ott (vg), 216-Gomez (gd-vg), 222-Gehringer (fair), 223-Dean (good), 230-Hubbell (vg), 234-Hubbell (ex-mt). Balance of set: 9 cards excellent, 69 very good, 79 cards good, 38 cards poor-fair.
Winning Bid $4,431.
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 Lot 58. R321 Goudey 4-in-1 Puzzle cards partial set of 50 cards including 2 Babe Ruths. There are 31 of the 36 different fronts in this group, an additional 15 variations and 4 duplicates. Condition is mixed, however, the two Ruth cards are in good shape. Highlights: Ruth-McManus-Brandt-Maranville 1-J (vg-ex) and Ruth-McManus-Brandt-Maranville 3-A (excellent). Balance: 3 cards excellent, 14 cards very good, 13 cards good, 18 cards fair-poor
Winning Bid $1,771.
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 Lot 59. R323 Heads Up partial set with 27 of the 48 cards including Joe DiMaggio. The partial set includes only 6 cards from the easier low numbers (241-Gehringer, 242, 244, 257, 261 and 262-Medwick). All are fair-good except 244-Damaree which is very good. The more difficult high numbers from 265-288 are missing 266, 277 and 281. Highlights: 265-Gehringer (vg), 270-Lombardi (poor), 273-Foxx (fair-good), 274-DiMaggio (fair), 282-Doerr (vg), 282-Medwick (poor) and 288-Feller (fair). The balance include 1 excellent and 3 very good cards.
Winning Bid $2,541.
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 Lot 60. R324 Goudey set of 33. The last Goudey set issued in 1941. Usually found off-center and badly cut. The set contains only two HOF’ers, Hobbell and Ott and has five rare cards numbered 21-25. Highlights: 1-Mulcahy (ex), 20-Hubbell (vg), 21-Warstler (ex), 22-Sullivan (fair), 3-Young (gd-vg), 24-Andrews (vg), 25-Arnovich (good), 33-Ott (good). Balance: 5 cards ex-mt, 3 cards excellent, 8 cards very good, 9 cards good;
Winning Bid $1,612.
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 Lot 61. R326 Goudey Flip Movie set of 26. Issued for 13 players with 2 part movies for each player (Part 1 and Part 2). Exceptionally nice condition set. Highlights: 4-DiMaggio (ex-mt, ex+-mt), 3-Ott (ex-mt, nr mt), 7-Appling (vg-ex, ex), 8-Feller (ex-mt, vg), 10-P.Waner (vg, good), 11-Medwick (ex-mt, ex), 12-Foxx (ex-mt, ex-mt); Balance: 10 movies ex-mt, 2 movies vg-ex.
Winning Bid $1,610.
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 Lot 62. R336 1941 Playball Complete Set of 72. Nice affordable set with over 55% of the cards very good or better. Highlights: 1-Miller (good), 6-Hubbell (ex, o/c), 8-Ott (vg+), 10-Vaughan (vg), 13-Foxx (vg), 14-Williams (good), 15-Cronin (gd-vg), 18-Greenberg (ex-mt), 19-Gehringer (good), 20-Ruffing (vg), 39-Henrich (vg-ex), 54-Reese (vg), 60-Klein (fair), 61-V. DiMaggio (vg-ex), 63-D. DiMaggio (vg-ex), 64-Doerr (ex), 70-Dickey (gd-vg), 71-J. DiMaggio (fair), 72-Gomez (good). Balance: 15 cards excellent, 16 cards very good, 17 cards good, 5 cards fair.
Winning Bid $1,774.
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 Lot 63. R330 Double Play set of 75. Beautiful set with 60% excellent-mint or better and 99% excellent or better. Highlights: 23-4 Reese (nr mt), 31-2 Ott (nr mt), 39-40 Mize-Slaughter (ex), 51-2 Greenberg (nr mt), 57-8 Williams (ex+), 59-60 Cronin-Foxx (ex-mt), 61-2 Gomez-Rizzuto (ex-mt), 63-4-DiMaggio-Keller (ex-mt), 65-6 Dickey (ex-mt), 77-8 Feller (nr mt), 81-2 Williams-Cronin (ex), 85-6 Greenberg-Ruffing (ex), 105-6 Grove-Doerr (ex), 139-40 Hubbell (nr mt). Balance: 17 cards nr-mt, 19 cards ex-mt, 24 cards excellent, 1 card very good;
Winning Bid $3,222.
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 Lot 64. Rarely seen near set of 44 V94 Canadian Butterfingers. Issued in 1934 as a premium with Butterfinger candy, this is the Canadian version of the R310 Butterfinger set and is much rarer. V94 is the designation in the American Card Catalog, this large format (6-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) black and white set is printed on thin stock. This set is almost identical to the U.S. Butterfinger issue (R310) but is smaller and includes a number of players not found in the U.S. series. Offered is an exceptional near-complete set featuring 44 of the supposedly 55 cards now known. This does not include Ruth, Gehrig and the Foxx spelling varieties which have never been seen. In 2001, when we sold Don McPherson’s V94’s, the set was believed to be complete at 50. Since then others have been found and this group includes 3 of the new discoveries (Brown, Cramer and Fullis). Highlights: Averill (ex-mt), Bottomley (ex-mt appearance, pinhole and pencil mark on rear), Cochrane (ex-mt, pencil mark on back), Cronin (ex), Dean (ex-mt), Dickey (ex), Ferrell (ex, 2 pinholes), Foxx (Vg -Ex), Gehringer (good), Gomez (good), Grove (ex-mt, pinhole), Hafey (ex-mt), Harris (vg), Hoyt (vg-ex), and Simmons (ex-mt). Balance: 14 ex-mt, 5 excellent, 6 very good, 4 good; A listing of all 44 V94’s is available on request.
Winning Bid $1,100.
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 Lot 65. R302-1 and R302-2 1943 and 1949 MP & Co. sets of 24. 1943 set Highlights: J. DiMaggio (vg-ex), Feller (nr mt), Foxx (nr mt), Greenberg (nr mt), Ott (nr mt), Reese (ex-mt), Williams (ex-mt); Balance: 13 cards excellent-mt or better, 3 cards very good, 1 card good; 1949 set Highlights: 101-Williams (ex), 105-J. DiMaggio (vg-ex), 106-Reese (ex), 110-Kiner (ex), 117-Berra (good), 124-Doby (poor); Balance: 8 cards excellent, 5 cards very good, 5 cards good.
Winning Bid $977.
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 Lot 66. Complete run of the four Remar sets from 1946-1950. 1946 Remars set of 23: Highlights: 10-Stengel (vg), unn-Raimondi (vg). Balance: 16 cards ex-mt or better, 5 cards very good; 1947 Remars set of 25: Highlights: 8-Stengel (vg-ex). Balance: 1949 Remars set of 32: Highlights: Kelly (ex), Martin (nr mt, o/c). Balance: very-good to excellent; 19 ex-mt or better, 8 excellent, 2 vg, 1 autographed (Hamrick); 1950 Remars set of 27: Highlights: Herman (nr mt), 14-Kelly (ex-mt). Balance: All ex-mt or better except Wilson (vg) and Lavagetto (good).
Winning Bid $733.
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