1919-74 Baseball Exhibits, Postcards, Pastels Potpourri (77)

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2025

For serious vintage Exhibits and Postcards, this is a rare opportunity to pick up samplings from a host of rare and even difficult issues over the span of a half century, a lineup ranging from 1919 Cincinnati Reds Postcards, 1929 Kashin Publications, 1936 R316 Pastels to the 1947 Bond Bread Exhibits, 1950s Spic-Span Braves, 1959 Bazookas, McGregor Advisory cards and the colorized George Brace photography and a lot more. This is an old-fashioned auction lot that demands a good deal of close examination and is likely to yield uncommon treasures. The Breakdown: 1) 1919 Cincinnati Reds Postcards (5), 3 ½-by-5 ½ inches, present Good to Very Good but three have punch holes – Bressler (m/c), Kopf, Magee, Moran and Ring; 2) 1929 Kashan Publications (4) – 3 ½-by-4 ½ inches, including Waner – Good, Whitney, Rosell and Ruffing (back damage); 3) 1936 Pastels Premiums (6), 4-by-5 ½ inches, Blanton (2) – Very Good, Winegarner (2 – one is mk and one Good, Fox/White/Goslin – VG and Foxx Batting – Authentic; 4) 1947 Bond Bread Exhibits (16) – 3 1/8-by-5 inches with blank backs, broadly Excellent to Ex-Mt with some below, including Blackwell – VG, Keltner – Fair, Lindell, Lockman, Pafko (3), Pesky (2), Rizzuto – VG (miscut), Sain, Slaughter – Good, Stephens (2) and Tebbetts (2); 5) 1954-56 Spic-Span Milwaukee Braves Postcards (23), broadly Excellent to Ex-Mt, with some below in two sizes: a) 5 ¾-by-3 5/8 inches (13) – Adcock, Conley (2), Buhl, Crandall, Crone, Jolly (2), Logan, Mathews, O’Connell, Spahn and Thomson; and b) 4-by-6 inches (10) – Bruton (2), Buhl, Burdette, Crandall, Ditmer, Logan, Mathews, Pafko, Spahn – Fair and Thomson; 6) 1959 Bazooka (2) - 2 ¾-by-5 inches, Cepeda and Turley – Fair; 7) 1960 MacGregor Advisory (5), 3 ¾-by-5 inches, mostly Very Good, including Frank Robinson, Mazeroski, Gilliam, Freese and Bell; 8) 1971 Giants Schedule Cards (5), 4-by-6 inches, mostly Excellent to Ex-Mt, including Dietz, Fox, Henderson, McMahon and Perry; 9) 1972 Partridge Reds (3), 4-by-5 inches; 10) 1974 Bra-Mac Bonus Photo Cards (6), colorized George Brace photography, with Ott, Hornsby and Lyons – Nos. 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12; and 11) 1950 Callahan Hall of Fame Art Card Flattened Boxes (2), 4-by-6 inches – Fair.