March 25, 2021: Spring Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/25/2021
Almost a dozen Hall of Famers headline this nice collectible array of mostly baseball players in the famed 1947-66 Exhibit Supply Co. Postcard Series, along with a handful of the earlier Salutation Series and more than a dozen outliers from various other professional and amateur sports. As a group the baseball array is broadly Very Good to Excellent, a condition assessment not uncommon to this popular genre when it is encountered in older collections; the dozen-plus Exhibits from other sports are generally a bit lesser in grade, maybe Fair to Good, with a couple above and below the range. In the baseball array there is only the barest whisper of duplication, and none in the other sports group that includes Boxers, Football, Basketball, Figure Skaters, Swimmers, Bowlers, Table Tennis and Thoroughbred Racing. In the listing below for the baseball group, an asterisk indicates the Exhibit is from the earlier Salutation Series. Breakdown of Hall of Famers (11): Appling* - Good, Boudreau* - Good, Cepeda – Very Good, Fox – Good, Kell – VG, Mize – Good, Musial – Excellent-Plus, Ott* - Fair, Reese – Ex, Spahn – VG-Ex and Ted Williams – Ex-Mt; Baseball Group (44): Bearden, Beggs, Cavaretta*, Casey, Cooper (Good), Cartwright, Dark, Dickson, Dom DiMaggio, Dobson, Ferriss, Furillo, Galan, Gustine, Haas, Hodges (Good), Holmes* (Good), Hopp, Hughson, Hutchinson, Judnich, Kinder, Kolloway (2, one is Good), Kurowski, Majeski, Marion, Marshall, Mayo, Mele, Northey (Good), Pafko (Good), Pesky, Philley, Reiser*, Stanky, Stephens, Vernon (2), Wakefield, Walters (2) and Wehmeier; Other Sports (18): including Bulldog Turner (Poor), Otto Graham (Good), Lujack (VG), Mikan (Poor), Cook (Good), Bill Durnan, Joe Louis (Fair), Barlund, Bill Dodds, Henie, Scott, Merrill, Curtis, Bowman, Varipapa, Miles and Man O War (Poor).
1947-66 Exhibit Supply Co. Baseball Group and Other Sports (73)
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