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, Feb. 16, 1911” on the top. The player’s name – in this instance Robert Bescher and “Cincinnati National League” – are printed in the same fashion on the bottom. Presented here is a BGS 2 (Good) example of the series that actually presents a bit better, probably VG-Ex, that earns the Good designation only because a horizontal crease that is visible only on the back; the supplement is No. 64, though the cards themselves are unnumbered.
1909-13 Sporting News Supplements M101-2 Robert Bescher/Cincinnati/2/16/11 BGS 2
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