Winter Auction 2015 closing February 7
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/8/2015
Presented is a 486-card near set of one of the the most widely collected 20th Century tobacco insert card releases. The 1909-11 T206 White Border production features many pose variations, different advertising backs, and an abundance of Hall of Famers. Unless noted, each of the cards carry a “Piedmont” or “Sweet Caporal”-branded back. In total, 24 cards have been graded by SGC. Includes: Graded Cards - Graded
SGC 60 EX 5: 7 cards w/ Crawford/Throwing, Evers/Portrait, LaPorte, Schmidt/Throwing, Seymour/Portrait, Wheat (“Sovereign”) and J. White;
SGC 55 VG/EX+ 4.5: 7 cards w/ Chase/Holding Trophy (“Polar Bear”), Cobb/Portrait/Red (“Polar Bear”), Flick, Mathewson/White Cap, Street/Portrait, Willett and Young/Bare Hand;
SGC 50 VG/EX 4: 2 cards w/Kleinow (“Sovereign”) and Scott;
SGC 35 GD+ 2.5: 2 cards w/ Cobb/Portrait/Green and Johnson/Portrait;
SGC 30 GD 2: 1 card, Cobb/Bat Off Shoulder;
SGC 20 FR 1.5: 5 cards w/ Cobb/Bat On Shoulder, Johnson/Hands At Chest (“Factory No. 42”), Mathewson/Dark Cap, Young/Glove Shows and Young/Portrait.
Ungraded Cards – Highlights include: Beckley (PR), Bender/No Trees (trimmed), Bender/Trees (VG), Bender/Portrait (VG/EX), Bresnahan/Batting (GD), Brown/Chicago (GD), Brown/Cubs (VG/EX), Brown/Portrait (trimmed), Chance/Batting (FR), Chance/Red Portrait (VG), Chance/Yellow Portrait (VG/EX), Chesbro (FR, pinhole), Cicotte (VG), Clarke/Bat (VG), Clarke/Portrait (GD), E. Collins/Philadelphia (GD), J. Collins/Minneapolis (GD - "E.P.D.G."), Crawford/With Bat (VG), Davidson (FR - "Howie McCormick" back stamp), Evers/Chicago (VG), Evers/Cubs (GD/VG), Griffith/Batting (GD), Griffith/Portrait (GD/VG), Huggins/At Mouth (GD), Huggins/Portrait (VG), Jennings/One Hand (VG = "Old Mill"), Jennings/Two Hands (PR), Jennings/Portrait (GD - "Sovereign"), Joss/Hands at Chest (FR), Joss/Portrait (GD/VG),
Keeler/Portrait (GD/VG), Keeler/With Bat (GD), Kelley (VG), Lajoie/Throwing (GD), Marquard/At Side (VG), Marquard/Pitching
(GD/VG), Marquard/Portrait (trimmed - "American Beauty"), McGinnity (FR, pencil), McGraw/Finger in Air (VG), McGraw/Glove at Hip
(GD/VG), McGraw/Portrait/No Cap (VG), McGraw/Portrait/Cap (VG/EX), Speaker (FR, pencil), Tinker/Bat Off Shoulder (VG),
Tinker/Hands On Knees (VG), Tinker/Portrait (VG/EX), Waddell/Portrait (FR), Waddell/Throwing (VG), Wallace (VG), Walsh (PR),
Willis/Portrait (VG - "Sovereign") and Willis/Throwing (GD/VG - "Old Mill"). Grades 2% VG/EX+ to EX, 58% VG to VG/EX, 18% GD to GD/VG, 17% lesser, 5% trimmed.