Lot 57.  1930 Fleer “Whiz-Bang” Gum Set of 3 baseball Lefty Grove, Goose Goslin and Gabby Hartnett. From the recent find of a box of these previously unknown cards. The box consisted of 83 cards from what was an apparent set of 16. Included were 3 different baseball cards Grove, Goslin and Hartnett. Offered here is the set of 3 baseball subjects. The set is near mint. Each card has two tiny factory punched slits which it is suspected would propel the cards. Included is a pack of “Whiz Bang” Gum and 3 strings that apparently would go through the two tiny slits. One of four sets known. Winning Bid $4,833.

Lot 58.  F279-1 1934 Quaker Oats “Ask Me” baseball card game with Instruction sheet and original mailing envelope. A deck of 26 cards in sheets, as mailed, have baseball questions on the front and back and form the heart of a game created by the Quaker Oats Company in 1934. The cards are in mint condition and come with the instruction sheet and the original mailing envelope. Minimum Bid $300.

Lot 59.  1948 Swell Sports Thrill set of 20. High grade set with virtually all cards excellent and better. Highlights: 3-Robinson (ex+-mt), 4-Johnson (ex+), 12-Ruth (ex+-mt), 14-Gehrig (ex+-mt), 16-Williams, etc (ex-mt), 18-Reese (ex+-mt), 19-Feller (ex+-mt), 20-Furillo (ex+); Balance: 9 cards ex-mt or near mint, 3 cards excellent; Winning Bid $1,577.

Lot 60.  1948-9 Leaf standard set of 49 with the 3 rare variations and 31 additional color variations. Extraordinary subset with 83 cards in above average condition with nearly 75% excellent or better and the balance predominately very good or better. The balance of the 49 card rare series part of the set can be found in Lot 3. Highlights: 1-DiMaggio (near ex), 3-Ruth (ex), 4-Musial (ex+), 11-Rizzuto (ex+), 32-Spahn (ex-mt), 42-Peterson-red hat (ex front, 2 tiny spots of paper loss on rear), 46-Mize (vg-ex), 59-2 Applings (ex and vg), 76-Williams (ex+-mt), 70-Wagner (ex-mt), 79-Robinson (ex-mt), 83-3 Doerrs (vg-ex, vg and gd), 91-Kiner (ex-mt front, some minor staining on rear), 102-“Hermansk” (gd-vg), 106-2 Boudreaus (ex and vg), 117-2 J. Gordons (ex-mt and vg), 136-Aberson-short sleeve (vg-ex), Balance: 22 cards ex-mt, 24 cards excellent, 13 cards 1 card good, 1 card poor; There are color variations for Trout, Johnson, Evans, Harris, Hegan, Valo, Brissie, Blackwell, Vico, Wakefield, Vandermeer, Jensen, McCall, Appling, Early (2), Edwards, Smalley, Doerr (2), Hudson (2), Weigel (2), Stirnweiss, Boudreau, Priddy, Gordon, Pafko, Rosar and Hopp. Winning Bid $5,500.

Lot 61.  1950 Drakes set of 36 with three cards SGC graded. As nice a set of these as I’ve seen. The black bordered set is nearly impossible to find in high grade and this set might be as close as you can come with 75% excellent and better. In addition many Drakes cards are found with some food stains, which also hold grades down. Highlights: 5-Snider (vg), 6-Campanella (vg-ex), 11-Hodges (vg), 13-Doerr (ex+), 14-Spahn (50 VG/EX 4), 19-Reese (SGC 60 EX 5), 24-Berra (ex-mt), 25-Rizzuto (SGC 80 EX/NM 6), 36-Slaughter (vg-ex). Balance: 13 cards ex-mt or better, 9 cards excellent, 5 cards very good. Winning Bid $4,290.

Lot 62.  1952 Royal Pudding set of 24 with 14 variations. The Standard Catalog lists 24 different cards and a total of 26 variations of the cards. 8 cards are known only one way. Offered here is a world Class set including variations of Musial, Reese, Dom DiMaggio, Spahn, Pafko, Seminick, Brissie, Rizzuto, Scarborough (2 different), Truck, Sain and Sisler. Condition is also quite impressive with about 60% (23 cards excellent or better in a set that is nearly always notoriously miscut). There are also xeroxes for 4 other variations. The Standard Catalogs shows no differential in price for the variations although it is obvious to anyone who collected these there are significant differences. Highlights: Musial (vg-ex), Reese (ex, fair), Kell (good), Dom DiMaggio (gd-ex, gd), Spahn (ex+-mt, nr mt), Rizzuto (nr mt, good), Appling (nr mt), N. Fernandez (gd), Fain rare blue tint (ex); Balance: 13 cards ex-mt or better, 4 cards excellent, 2 cards very good-excellent , 6 cards good. Winning Bid $2,659.

Lot 63.  1952 Royal Fan Premium set of 16. Mixed condition companion set to the 1952 Royal Pudding set. All are inscribed “To a Royal Fan” in white on the front. Key card is Stan Musial, which is ex+mt to near mint as is Warren Spahn and George Kell. Seven others average very good-excellent. The remaining 6 (Reese, Rizzuto, D. DiMaggio, Thomson, Dark and Blackwell) have damage in a corner. Winning Bid $484.

Lot 64.  1952 and 1953 Dixie Lid Premium near sets. 1952 Dixie Lid Premium near set of 23 missing Ashburn. An ex-mt set that includes Bob Feller, Nelson Fox, Monte Irvin, Ralph Kiner, Red Schoendienst and Enos Slaughter. 1953 Dixie Lid Premium near set of 21 missing 3. Fox, Kluszewski and Spahn are the missing. The Ashburn has some ink stains in the upper left portion and some creasing (fair). The Sauer and Schoendienst are ex-mt, however have perforations at the left indicating they were in a sample book. The balance include Monte Irvin, Ralph Kiner, Red Schoendienst and Enos Slaughter and are ex-mt or better. Winning Bid $1,375.

Lot 65.  1960 Leaf set of 146 including Grant and Smith variations. Very high grade near mint to mint set. Highlights: 1-Aparcio (ex+-mt), 25a-Grant, white cap (nr mt), 25b-Grant, dark cap (ex-mt), 27-B. Robinson (nr mt-mt), 37-Snider (nr mt-mt), 52-Green (nr mt-mt), 57a-Smith, team & Pos. (nr mt-mt), 57c-Smith, no team (nr mt-mt), 94-Smiths (nr mt-mt), 125-Anderson (nr mt-mt), 128-Cepeda (nr mt-mt), 141-Flood (nr mt-mt), 144-Bunning (ex-mt). Balance: Virtually every card is nr mt-mt; Winning Bid $2,855.

Lot 66.  1961 Post Cereal sets of 200. The first extended Post set which contained varieties from the cereal boxes and cards that could be obtained from the company. This set contains cards from both types. Highlights: 4-Mantle (ex+-mt), 10-McDougald (ex-mt), 23-Shaw (ex+-mt) 73-Estrada (nr mt), 93a-Lemon (ex-mt), 94-Stobbs (ex+-mt), 183-McMillan (nr mt); Balance: 154 cards excellent to near mint, balance gd-vg with a few worse. Winning Bid $799.

Lot 67.  1962 Post Cereal sets of 200 with Life Magazine Mantle-Maris strip. Nice set with 65% excellent or ex-mt. Highlights: 5a-Mantle (vg), 5b-6b Mantle-Maris strip from Life Magazine (ex+), 101-Hodges (ex), 127-Lynch (ex+-mt), 131-McCovey (vg-ex), 140-Marichal (nr mt) 158-White (nr mt); Balance: 121 cards excellent and better, balance gd-vg, with a few worse. Minimum Bid $750.

Lot 68.  1963 Post Cereal near set of 187 and 30 1963 Jello, 10 of which are of the missing 13 numbers. The missing cards are 8, 13, 15, 39, 53, 80, 108, 128, 155, 162, 172, 187, and 196. The ones in bold are in the Jello group. Highlights: 16-Maris (ex+-mt), 30-Thomas (nr mt), 59-B. Robinson (nr mt), 61-Adair (ex-mt), 86-Lumpe (nr mt), 87-Jimenez (nr mt), 119-W.Davis (nr mt), 152-Aaron (nr mt), 166-Gibson (ex-mt); Balance: 112 cards ex-mt, rest gd-vg. Jello Cards 8-Battey (ex), 13, 15-Mantle (nr mt), 22, 26, 39, 44-Pizarro (nr mt), 49, 53-4, 58, 60, 80-Yaz (ex), 101, 106-Mays (ex-mt), 108, 119, 123, 133, 143-Clemente (nr mt), 145, 155, 160, 167, 178, 187-Aspromonte (ex-mt), 191, 196 and 199. Balance: average excellent +. Winning Bid $1,665.

Lot 69.  Complete run of Kelloggs sets from 1970 to 1983, also Football from 1970 and1971. All the baseball sets except for the valuable 1971 are near mint or better. Unlike most Kelloggs the cards have been preserved so the usual curvature found in Kelloggs is not there. That is, they lie flat. 1971 Kelloggs Highlights: 2-Seaver (vg), 5-Clemente (nr mt), 10-Mays (ex+-mt), 44-Kaline (ex+-mt), 55-Killebrew (nr mt), 65-Rose (nr mt), There are 6 cards with cracks, and the balance are all ex-mt or better. The two football sets are nr mt. Winning Bid $1,610.

Lot 70.  Collection of 21 sets from 1964-1994. Mostly collector sets with Standard Catalog values of $15 to $275. Group includes in chronological order – 1964 Tulsa Oiler Pepsi autograph set of 8 (vg-mt); 1970 Fleer World Series set of 66 (nr mt); 1974 Fleer Pioneers of Baseball set of 28 (ex-mt); 1974 Capital Publishing near set of 97 missing last 3 cards, (ex-mt); 1975 SSPC Puzzle set of 24 (nr mt); 1975 SSPC Set of 630 (nr mt); 1976 Shakey’s Pizza Hall of Fame set of 160, (nr mt); 1979 Diamond Greats set of 400 (nr mt); 1979 Early Red Sox Favorites set of 24 (Nr mt); 1980 Baseball Legends set of 120 (nr mt); 1980-88 Baseball Immortals set of 173 (nr mt); 1980 Nostalgic New York Highlanders set of 12 (nr mt; 1981 Valley Natl Bak Phoenix Giants set of 27 (nr mt); 1983 LF One Year Winners set of 118 (nr mt); 1981 Sporting News Conlan set of 100 (nr mt); 1983 Sporting News Conlan Collection set of 60 (ex+-mt); 1952 Topps Reprint near set of 403 missing 20, 22, 159, 196 and 289. Nr mt. 1990 Target Dodgers near set of 887 (nr mt); 1991-1994 Conlan Collection set of 1320 (nr mt); 1994 Lite Milwaukee Brewers set of 376 (ex+-mt); A total of 4,630 cards with sets lisitng in ther Standard Catalog for a total of $1,350. Winning Bid $250.

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