April 5, 2018: Sports & Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/5/2018
This is a truly impressive grouping of vintage Exhibit Supply Co. cards from the 1940’s to the 1960’s, the heyday of the charming mostly 3 1/8-by-5 3/8-inch cards that were typically sold for a penny apiece in vending machines across the country. Headlined by the Baseball Exhibits 1947-66, is an array that includes almost a dozen Hall of Famers and is broadly Excellent to Ex-Mt, with some below and the emphasis to Excellent. The lineup: Aparicio, Ashburn, Bailey, Bauer, Blasingame (mkd), Bruton (mk), Cepeda, Cerv (mk), Dom DiMaggio (VG-Ex), Donovan, Drysdale (Fair, mkd on back), Crandall, Ennis (VG-Ex), Fox, Friend (VG-Ex), Goodman, Greengrass, Howard, Kaline, Keller (VG), Kuenn (mk), Kubek (VG), Landis, Lemon, Logan, Majeski (Fair), Mahaffey, Malzone, Mays (Batting), McDaniel, McDougald, Minoso, Musial (Fair), Jackie Robinson (Good, mkd on back), Sawatski (mk), Skowron, Spahn and Thomas; 1962 Statistics Back – Groat; and 1939-46 Salutation – Elliott (Fair); 1940’s Football (11), generally Ex to Ex-Mt – Canadeo, Dottley, Fears, Geri, Hoernschienmeyer, McColl, Ortmann, Rhodenmyre, Vitamin T. Smith, Taliaferro and Bob Williams; 1960’s Wrestling (18), pretty uniformly Ex-Mt – Haystacks Calhoun, Drapp, Cowboy Bob Ellis, Pepper Gomez, Jerry Graham, Hard-Boiled Haggerty, Roy Hefferman, Don Leo Jonathan, Pat O’Connor, Antonio Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Bruno Sammartino, Lou Thesz, Sailor Art Thomas, Enrique Torres and Count Billy Vargo; and 1947-66 Boxing (15), most Ex-Mt – Cassius Clay, Johansohn, Elorde, Giardello, Hawk, Jones, Harold Johnson, Lane, Logart, Rinaldi, Mims, Olson, Pastrano and Patterson.
Vintage Exhibit Cards from Baseball, Football, Boxing and Wrestling (84)
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