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-10-inch photograph includes printing on a reversed type black box “Supplement to The Sporting News St. Louis, Dec. 23, 1909” on the top. The player’s name – in this instance Thomas W. Leach and “Pittsburg National League” – are printed in the same fashion on the bottom. Presented here is a BGS 1.5 (Fair) example of the series; the supplement is No. 24, though the cards themselves are unnumbered.
1909-13 Sporting News Supplements M101-2 Thomas W. Leach/Pittsburgh/12/23/09 BGS 1.5
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