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$445 This card of of New York Giants manager Jim Mutrie is from the popular N172 Old Judge cigarettes set. The card displays a strongly printed image with no significant visible flaws (see scan). Visible signs of wear on both front and back, including slightly rounded corners and very light stains on back. Image is sharper than appears in scan. Further details about the N172 Old Judge set can be found on the Old Cardboard website.
$980 A beautifully lithographed high-grade example from the "Scrapps Tobacco" set. This card features St. Louis Browns pitcher David L. Foutz (who later became manager of the Brooklyn Bridegrooms). Note: Cards from this set were lightly embossed at the factory. However, some vintage collectors are unaware of the embossing because it is virtually non-detectable on images of the fronts and, due to heavy stains and damage on many cards, often not visible or barely visible on the backs. The offered card is among the few that we have seen with stronger embossing that is readily identifiable on a very clean back. View enlarged scan for detail. Further details about the 1888 Scrapps Die-Cut set can be found on the Old Cardboard website.
$415 This card of of Pittsburg left fielder Abner Dahlrymple is from the popular N172 Old Judge cigarettes set. The card displays a strongly printed high-grade image with no significant visible flaws (see scan). The two lines at the lower right corner of the back are not creases (could be light water stains). Image is sharper than appears in scan. Further details about the N172 Old Judge set can be found on the Old Cardboard website.
$350 An attractive example from the N172 Old Judge cigarettes set, this card features Indianapolis catcher Tug Arundel. The card is in Poor condition as the result of several flaws. One is a crease that extends the vertical length of the card. It is visible on both the front and back but does not appear to break the surface. Another smaller crease is visible at the lower right corner (as viewed from the front). Light pencil marks are also found on the card back. Still a very appealing high-contrast card approaching 135 years of age. The image is sharper than appears in the scan. Further details about the N172 Old Judge set can be found on the Old Cardboard website.
$330 This graded card of Curt Welch (misspelled as Welsh on the card and the holder) is from the popular N172 Brown's Old Judge subset. The strongly printed high-grade front contains no visible flaws (see scan). The overall SGC 10 (Poor) grade assigned to the card is no doubt based on the paper damage caused by the careless removal of the card from an album. Further details about this set can be found here.
$3950 These cabinet cards were issued and distributed to promote sales of The Police Gazette periodical in the late 1880's and early 1890's. They are sepia photographs affixed to a 4-1/2 x 6-1/2-inch thick-cardboard backing. The effect in their presentation, with a darker backing than is found on most of the era's cabinets, is striking. The offered card pictures John J. Fields, also known as Jocko Fields. A lifetime .271 hitter, Fields spent six seasons playing baseball from 1887 to 1892. His first three seasons were played with the Pittsburg Alleghenys in the National League. Police Gazettes are some of the most difficult of all 19th Century issues and are missing from most type card collectors want lists. The blank back is near flawless and the cabinet card's overall grade is SGC 60 EX. Further details about the Police Gazette Cabinet set can be found on the Old Cardboard website..
$4400 Each card in this 25-card unnumbered set contains two color drawings laid out in a horizontal format. The smaller drawing on the left contains the full-length pose of a baseball player, while the larger right portion of the card contains a comic non-baseball related image. The set has been assigned the number N135 in the American Card Catalog. The two images on each card are tied together (sometimes very loosely) by a double entendre contained in the title at the bottom of the card. Thus, as in the example card above, the title is illustrated in both baseball and non-baseball themes. Overall, the cards present very nicely and make a colorful and impressive display. As seen in the hi-res images of the set, there are several cards with creasing, small paper loss on the back and some staining. All cards are fully intact and most should grade Good with some lower and some a little higher. BONUS: The SGC-graded "A Pitcher in the Box" example shown in the image is included as an added bonus. It is a duplicate of one of the cards in the set so that all 50 raw cards could be displayed together in an album while having one graded example to better handle and view the front and back detail. In addition, a copy of Old Cardboard Issue #31 (see reference below) will be included as a second bonus for this lot.
A Profile of the "Talk of the Diamond" set can be found on the on the Old Cardboard website..
$2050 Only four baseball players were part of this 50-card set entitled "Champions of Games and Sports." A variety of other sports represented in the set range from Broncho Rider to Tight-Rope Walker, with a lot of other "games and sports" in between. The set is assigned number N184 in the American Card Catalog. The four baseball players in the set are E. A. Burch, Dell Darling, Hardie Henderson and James O'Neill (misspelled as O'Neil on the card). O'Neill was the best known of the four, and batted a whopping .435 the year the Kimball set was issued. Because of his practice of tipping "strike" balls in an effort to get a base on balls, he gained his popular nickname "Tip" O'Neill. The set's very attractive full color designs feature the athlete's portrait printed at the top of the card. A scene dipcting the sport in which he/she is champion is provided below the portrait. The four baseball players in the set are all graded as either SGC 2 (Good) or SGC 3 (Very Good) and all present extremely well. Most of the non-baseball cards would also grade as good or very good on the card fronts (with 2-3 exceptions that have significant horizontal creasing across the middle of the card fronts). The card backs, however, are much lower grade with many having major stains, paper loss and other flaws after being removed from an album. Please contact us for more detail. In summary, the beauty (and value) of this set lies in the exceptional appeal of the four baseball players, with a very presentable complete-set display of card fronts and very poor condition of non-baseball backs.
A Profile of the Kimball's "Champions of Games and Sports" set (with full gallery of cards) can be found on the Old Cardboard website..
$2850 Because the lithographs in the set are printed on oversized cabinet cards that feature only four baseball players, it is sometimes said to be simultaneously among the largest and the smallest sets ever produced. The oversized (6 by 9-1/2 inch) cards in this 1893 N142 set are among the rarest of all ninteenth century issues, and the only full color cabinet-sized cards issued before 1900. The set's four cards are considered by many collectors to be the most strikingly beautiful baseball cards ever produced. This example of Boston Nationals third baseman Billy Nash is in very nice condition with non-distracting flaws (crease at upper left corner, paper loss at upper left border and on white background below portrait and left of center). Light vertical staining on back. Please see high-res scans for condition detail. An overall very appealing example from this exceedingly rare and highly prized set. Further details about 1893 N142 set can be found on the Old Cardboard website.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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