November 30, 2017: Sports & Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/30/2017
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, Mar. 3, 1910” on the top. The player’s name – in this instance Edward Konetchy and “St. Louis National League” – are printed in the same fashion on the bottom. Presented here is a BGS 3.5 (Very Good-Plus) example of the series that actually presents a bit better, probably Excellent, that earns the Very Good-Plus designation only because of creasing that is visible only on the back; the supplement is No. 34, though the cards themselves are unnumbered.
1909-13 Sporting News Supplements M101-2 Edward Konetchy/St. Louis-N/3/3/10 BGS 3.5
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