Lot 175.  W461 Exhibit Supply Co. 1921 set of 64. The Exhibit Supply Co.’s first baseball set. The start of a 46 year run. 64 cards, 4 each for the 16 major league teams. The offered set is uniformly excellent and better with just a few exceptions. Highlights: Ruth (ex), Cobb (good), Johnson (ex), Alexander (ex), Hornsby (vg), Speaker (ex-mt), Sisler (ex-mt), Wheat (ex), Grimes (ex), Bancroft (vg-ex), Frisch (vg), Kelly (ex-mt), Carey (ex), Faber (ex), Collins (ex-mt), Schalk (ex), Coveleskie (ex), Harris (ex), Maranville (ex), Neale (ex-mt) and Haines (ex). Balance: 16 cards ex-mt or better, 22 cards excellent, 5 cards very good; Winning Bid $4,290.

Lot 176.  W461 Exhibit Supply Co. 1922 set of 72. Beautiful second year Exhibit Company set is noted for the expanded size, the lack of major names and the inclusion of umpires. An average very good-excellent set with over 50% of the cards excellent and better. Highlights: Rixey (ex), Ross Youngs (gd-vg), Klem (ex), Evans (vg), Heilman (ex) and Baker (ex+). Also in the set are Joe Wood (ex-mt), Walter Mails (ex) and Moses Yellowhorse (vg-ex). Balance: 3 cards ex-mt, 32 cards excellent, 18 cards very good, 6 cards fair-good; Winning Bid $2,659.

Lot 177.  W461 Exhibit Supply Co. 1927 green tinted near set of 63 missing Gehringer. Under valued set that is far more difficult than the 1928 blues. Above average condition with nearly 50% excellent or better. Highlights: Gehrig (ex), Ruth (vg, signature and date in ink on back), Cobb (gd), Johnson (vg-ex), Goslin (ex), Speaker (vg), Collins (ex+), Bancroft (ex), Grimes (fair), Hartnett (gd), Heilman (ex-mt), Lazzeri (vg-ex), Rixey (ex), Hornsby (good), Lindstrom (good), Cuyler (vg), Traynor (poor), Alexander (ex), Bottomley (good), Schalk (good), Sisler (ex-mt) and Wheat (vg). Balance of set: 23 cards excellent or ex-mt or better, 8 cards very good, 10 cards fair-good. Winning Bid $2,929.

Lot 178.  W461 Exhibit Supply Co. 1928 blue tinted set of 64. Extremely nice set with over 80% excellent or better. Of the cards 32 have rarer post card backs. Highlights: Carey (ex), Hornsby (ex), Bancroft (ex), Vance (ex, note on back), Hartnett (gd-vg), Wilson (ex-mt), Lindstrom (ex), Rousch (ex), Alexander (ex, note on back), P. Waner (good), Frisch (ex), Lyons (ex-mt), Sewell (nr mt), Simmons (ex-mt), Ruth (ex), Gehrig (ex), Cochrane (nr mt, post card back), Harris (ex-mt), Luque (ex) and Goslin (ex). Balance: 18 cards ex-mt, 19 cards excellent, 5 cards very good, 2 card fair-good; Winning Bid $6,283.

Lot 179.  W461 Set 71 Exhibit Supply Company set of 20. Overprinted version of the set originally produced by the Eastern Exhibit Co. and then acquired by Exhibit Company of Chicago. A beautiful set with all the cards ex-mt or better. Highlights: Ruth (ex-mt), Cobb (ex-mt), Johnson (nr mt), Hornsby (nr mt), Alexander (ex), Bancroft (ex-mt), Collins, (ex+-mt) Faber (nr mt), Heilmann (vg-ex, printing specs), Schalk (ex-mt), Speaker (ex-mt) and Wheat. (nr mt); Balance: 8 cards ex-mt or better, Winning Bid $3,900.

Lot 180.  W461 Set 82 Anonymous Company set of 28. Highlights: Ruth (ex), Gehrig (gd-vg), Cobb (ex), Johnson (ex-mt), Hornsby (vg-ex), Paul Waner (nr mt), Sisler (vg), Speaker (good), Rousch (vg), Rixey, Simmons, (vg) Heilmann (vg-ex), Harris (ex-mt), Hartnett (ex+-mt), Faber (vg), Fritsch (ex-mt) and Bottomley (vg, writing on back). Balance: 9 cards ex-mt, 3 cards are very good. All with postcard backs and the “Not to be Used in Exhibit Machines” statement. Winning Bid $4,284.

Lot 181.  W461 Set 83 Anonymous Company set of 16. Magnificent ex+-mt set. A very popular set filled with All-Stars. All with postcard backs and the “Not to be Used in Exhibit Machines” statement. Highlights: Ruth (ex+-mt), Gehrig (ex-mt), Cochrane (ex-mt, interesting double image of Cochrane on back), Foxx (ex-mt), Grove (ex), Hornsby (nr mt), Klein (nr mt), Simmons (ex-mt), Traynor (nr mt), Vance (nr mt), P. Waner (ex-mt) and Wilson (ex+-mt). Balance: ex-mt or better. Winning Bid $5,185.

Lot 182.  Anonymous and very rare four in one featuring poses from Set 83 featuring Lou Gehrig SGC graded. Poses on the card and the rest of the set come from the Set 83 Exhibits and the W517 card set. The card has been given a technical grade of SGC 40 VG 3, but it appears much better than that. The players with Gehrig on the card are Mickey Cochrane, Pete Donahue and Lefty Grove. Minimum Bid $750.

Lot 183.  Another rare Exhibit type, SGC graded, featuring poses from the Anonymous Baseball exhibit sets, as well as that company’s boxers and movie actors. This card features two baseball players Heine Groh and Bucky Harris and inverted on the other end are boxers Jack Dempsey and Rocky Kansas. The card has been graded SGC 50 VG/EX 4 and has some minor corner wear. Winning Bid $1,264.

Lot 184.  W463 Exhibit Supply Co. 1929-30 Four-in-1 set of 32 (Set 8). The first of the four-in-one sets and the easiest with 2 cards issued for each of the 16 major league teams. All issued with coupons on a post card back. A solid excellent set. Highlights: Koenig-Ruth-Durocher-Gehrig (ex), Foxx-Cochrane-Grove-Haas (ex), Hoyt-Lazzeri-Bengough-Combs (ex), Alexander-Wilson-Frisch-Bottomley (ex), L. Waner-Hargreaves-Kremer-P.Waner (ex), Benton-Ott-Terry-Reese (ex-mt, pencil marks on back), Hartnett-Beck-Wilson-Hornsby (ex). Balance: 23 cards excellent or better, 2 cards very good. Beautiful set. Winning Bid $3,218.

Lot 185.  W463 Group of 6 Cleveland Indian 4-in-1 Exhibits. Years are 1929-1930 (2, excellent and near mint), the rare 1931-1932 (ex-mt), 1933 (excellent), 1934 (nr mt) and 1935 (vg). All include HOF’er Earl Averill. Winning Bid $700.

Lot 186.  R463 Rare 1937 4 in 1 Exhibit card from the anonymous Company featuring Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio. One of only a few 4 in 1 Exhibit cards that feature four Hall of Famers, the card has DiMaggio’s first appearance on a four-in-one (he would appear again in the 1938 final 4-in-1 set). The card also portrays Tony Lazzeri and Lefty Gomez. The blank rear of the card shows some minor paper remains on the back in the two upper corners. Otherwise the card is excellent. Winning Bid $330.

Lot 187.  1939-47 Salutation near set of 74 cards including variations. There are 11 missing including Averill, Dean, Derringer, Gehrig, Gordon (N.Y.), Hartnett, Holmes (SY), Lee, Marion (LL), Russell and Walker. (no “D”) Very high grade group with almost all cards ex-mt or near mint. Highlights: DiMaggio-Maroon (good), Feller-Port. (nr mt), Foxx (ex+-mt), Gehringer (ex-mt), Gomez (ex+-mt), Greenberg-very truly yours (ex-mt), Grove (nr mt), Klein (ex+, some album remains on back), Kreevich (ex-mt), Lombardi-Cordially (nr mt), Medwick (nr mt), Mulcahy (nr mt front, some pencil writing on rear), Newsom- (nr mt), Rizzo (nr mt, pinhole) and Williams #9 (ex-mt). Balance of set average ex-mt with many near mint. A couple of minor cards grade less. Winning Bid $2,016.

Lot 188.  1947-1966 near Exhibit set near complete set missing the two 1954 team cards and a couple of minor variations. In all, there are 355 cards including some color variations not listed. Almost all cards, with exception of the rare 1966 issue have the alleged year of issue lightly written in pencil on the rear in the upper right corner. I would expect that these are easily erasable. Thus, while a large percentage of the cards appear near mint, in fact they are not (except for the 1966 issue). The grades that follows will indicate “mk” after the grade on the cards that have the year on the rear (the grade is without consideration of the mark). Highlights: Aaron (ex-mt, mk), Alvis (nr mt), Ashburn, Cubs (nr mt, mk), Banks, Port. (nr mt, mk), Larry Berra (ex-mt, mk), Campanella (nr mt, mk), Clemente (gd-vg, mk), Colavito-Port. (nr mt, mk), Cunningham-Port. (vg, mk), Drysdale-Port. (vg, mk), Ed Ford (ex-mt, mk), Ford-Port. (nr mt), Hubbs (nr mt, mk), Hutchinson (ex-mt, mk), Killebrew-Port. (nr mt), Koufax (vg, mk), Kranepool (nr mt), Mantle-pinstripes (ex+-mt, mk), Mantle-no white (ex, mk), Mantle-Portrait (nr mt), Mantle-white (nr mt, mk), Mantle-c.k (gd, mk), Maris (nr mt, mk), all 3 Mays (nr mt, mk), McCoskey (gd, mk), Musial-batting (nr mt, mk), Paige (ex-mt, mk), Powell (nr mt), Richardson (nr mt), J. Robinson (ex+-mt, mk), “Moose” Skowron (nr mt), Ward (nr mt), Yasztremzski (nr mt), 1949 Brooklyn, 1952 Brooklyn and 1955 Brooklyn (ex-mt, mk), 1956 Brooklyn (ex-mt), 1949 Yankees, 1952 Yankees and 1955 Yankees (ex+, mk ), 1956 Yankees (ex-mt) and 1951 Yankees (fair, mk). Winning Bid $2,659.

Lot 189.  W464 1948 Hall Of Fame set of 33 including both Ruths and an additional 18 green varieties including a Ruth. A total of 51 cards including the much rarer green tints. Highlights: Ruth –batting (ex), Ruth-10 bats (vg-ex), Cobb (ex-mt), Gehrig (ex-mt); Balance: ex-mt and better. Green tint highlights: Ruth-batting (ex), Gehrig (ex); Balance: excellent and better. Winning Bid $646.

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