Extremely scarce card from the first of two sets produced by Bishop & Company, a Los Angeles-based candy maker. The 30-card set contains only players from the Pacific Coast League, with five players from each of the league's six teams. Each card features a black and white photo of its subject, set against a colored background of either black, blue, green, purple or yellow (the black backgrounds are the most rare). The 1910 issue can be differentiated from the 1911 due to the lack of company identification on the card reverse. The cards are extremely scarce today; it is unusual to find even one card from the issue in a hobby auction. We are thrilled to present the largest grouping of the cards in recent memory, broken into individual lots to encourage type card collectors to fill in a hole in their collections.
Attractive, collector-grade card of Harry McArdle, shortstop for the SF Seals. One of just four examples graded by PSA, the card displays surface wear and creasing consistent with the grade. Still, an extremely tough card in any grade, one of the more interesting images in the set due to the odd nature of the portrait, which includes McArdle's face and hat, but no signs of a body.