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Mike Farris
"The Bench Warmer"

Mort Rogers 1871 Scorecard with 3rd Baseman Harry Schafer on the cover. From the first year of the National Association. Features as good a matchup as imaginable with the Boston team (George & Harry Wright, Al Spalding, Ross, Barnes, Cal McVey, Schafer, etc) playing The Mutuals (Candy Cummings, Dicky Pearce, Joe Start, etc) Measures 5" x 3 1/4" and is meticulously scored. Advertising on the back includes an ad for Wright & Gould‘s Baseball Goods.  Gould was a teammate of Wright on the 1869 Reds. The card has a small non-obtrusive scrape inside near the top, there is also evidence of professional restoration at the spine where tissue paper is apparent when viewing through a magnifying glass. For a card that is generally offered with only a cover, or trimmed, this must be one of the most attractive copies known. 

Beautiful card of the Giant Hall of Famer from Goodwin's first baseball set. 

One of the hobbies outstanding rarities and on virtually every type card collectors want list. Only three Red Stocking Cigar cards are known. Collector Jim McLean discovered the three (Buffington, Morrill and Radbourn) in the late seventies or early eighties.

Medium: prints : chromolithograph
Dimensions: ca. 2.75 x 1.5 inches

This set is generally acknowledged as the first significant tobacco set issued. Ten baseball players are included in the set, which also depicts six other sports.

A beautiful example of one of the hobby's most difficult and sought after type cards. A beautiful portrait of the Mets' (Spotted Tie pose) pitcher. 

Medium: 58 prints : chromolithograph
Dimensions: ca. 3 x 1.75 inches

D. Buchner & Company issued this set which includes portraits of actual players, as well as general representations of players by position.

Medium: 4 photographic prints : albumen
Dimensions: ca. 2.5 x 1.5 inches

Goodwin & Company issued this set, using the same photographic portraits as the Old Judge (N172) set.

Medium: 1 photographic print : albumen
Dimensions: ca. 4 x 2.25 inches

Charles Gross & Co. of Philadelphia issued this set comprised of players from four teams: the New York Giants and Mets, and the Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies.

One of the hobbies great rarities with only one copy known from a series that no more than 5 are believed to be in circulation. Especially desirable with a black cabinet mount and inscribed "Smoke Kalamazoo Bats" in gold leaf. Twelve members of the 1887 Philadelphia team sit around HOF Mgr. Harry Wright. A cursory look identifies Irwin, Farrar, Ferguson and Buffington. The Cabinet and photo are excellent and the date "1887 is written at the bottom in pen.

Four baseball players are portrayed in this set, which featuresa posed portrait above a drawing of the player in action.

Medium: 477 photographic prints : albumen
Dimensions: ca. 2.4375 x 1.5 inches

Players from over 40 major and minor league teams are depicted in this set, one of the largest 19th century sets issued.

Medium: 4 prints : chromolithograph
Dimensions: ca. 2.75 x 1.5 inches

This second set issued by Allen & Ginter includes six baseball players.

Medium: 5 prints : chromolithograph
Dimensions: ca. 3.25 x 2.875 inches

This set of unusually large and elaborate cards adds decorative imagery around the same portraits used for the Allen & Ginter N29 set.

E223 G&B Chewing Gum Frank Flint.

Medium: chromolithograph
Dimensions: ca. 2.625 x 1.5 inches

Goodwin & Company issued this set of lithographic cards printed in color, which includes eight baseball players.

Medium: photographic prints on cabinet card mount: albumen
Dimensions: ca. 6.5 x 4.25 inches

The cards in this large format set were offered as premiums in exchange for coupons distributed in cigarette packages.

Medium: 1 photographic print : albumen
Dimensions: ca. 2.75 x 1.5 inches

The Edwards collection contains one card from this small set issued by S.F. Hess & Company. The complete set includes players from four teams.

Medium: 2 prints : chromolithograph
Dimensions: ca. 2.875 x 1.5 inches

S.F. Hess & Company issued this set, comprised entirely of players in the California League.

Medium: 1 photographic print : albumen
Dimensions: ca. 2.875 x 1.5 inches

S.F. Hess & Co. issued this set depicting newspaper boys from eight newspapers in eight Northeastern cities.

Medium: 5 photographic prints : albumen
Dimensions: ca. 2.75 x 1.375 inches

August Beck & Company issued this set which includes studio photo portraits and full-length action line drawings similar to those used in the Old Judge (N172) set.

N142 Duke Cabinet E.J. (Ed) Delehanty, Philadelphia. One of the hobbies 19th Century prizes. One of four baseball Cabinets issued by Duke, the Delehanty is considered the most desirable. The HOF’er is one of baseball’s all time great hitters and his untimely death in 1903 remains one of baseball’s great mysteries.

1893 JUST SO TOBACCO E.J. (ED) MC KEAN, CLEVELAND SPIDERS

Medium: photomechanical prints : halftone and stencil
Dimensions: ca. 2.875 x 1.625 inches

These cards were distributed in tins of chewing tobacco rather than in cigarette packs.

1895 Newsboy Cabinet of Hall Of Famer John M. Ward.
The cabinet size is 4 1/4" x 61/2". This example is very presentable with a nice photo.