April 3, 2025: Spring Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/3/2025
Presented is a really nice array of nearly two dozen of the popular 1934 Butterfinger Baseball Premiums, the 7 ¾-by-9 ½-inch black-and-white photographs featuring prominent Depression Era baseball stars. The offered group presents in nearly Excellent to Ex-Mt fashion, markedly better than these coveted pieces are typically encountered in advanced collections. The unnumbered premiums, offered as a mail-in with inclusion of a Butterfinger wrapper, were printed on a light newsprint-like paper stock; in the listing below, outliers deemed as Fair typically have small tears that are so frequently found with the issue. The breakdown (23): Benton, Carroll, Chapman, Cochrane (Fair), Cronin (2 – Fair and Poor), Collins and Martin are affixed back to back (Fair), Fonseca, Gomez, Grove (Fair), Haas, Hafey, Harris, Hogan, Holley, Marberry (affixed), Melillo (affixed), Morrissey (Fair), Reynolds, Ryan (Fair), Vance (affixed), Waner (Fair) and Whitehill (Fair).
1934 Butterfinger Baseball Premiums Group, 8 HOFers (23)
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