March 19, 2020: Spring Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/19/2020
Regarded among the finest large-format baseball collectibles in the early years of the 20th Century – and this in an era that included the remarkable T3 Turkey Red cabinet cards – the fabled M101-2 Sporting News Supplements feature sepia-toned images of professional players on a heavy cardboard stock, most typically with blank backs. The elegant roughly 8-by-9 3/4-inch photograph includes printing on a reversed type black box “Supplement to The Sporting News St. Louis, December 21, 1910” on the top. The player’s name – in this instance legendary Hall of Famer Bobby Wallace and “St. Louis American League” – are printed in the same fashion on the bottom. Presented here is a BGS 2.5 (Good-Very Good) example of the series; the supplement is No. 56, though the cards themselves are unnumbered.
1909-13 Sporting News Supplements M101-2 Bobby Wallace/St. Louis-A/12/21/10 BGS 2.5
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