Lot # 435: 1910 E99 Bishop & Company Ivy Olsen - SGC AUTHENTIC

Category: 1900-1948

Starting Bid: $50.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Summer, 2022 Premier Auction",
which ran from 8/2/2022 12:00 AM to
8/20/2022 9:00 PM



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.

Orange-background card of infielder Ivy Olson, who played two seasons with the Portland Beavers before moving on to play 14 years in the Majors, with Cleveland, Cincinnati, and finally Brooklyn.  He played in more than 1,500 major league games, batting .258 lifetime.  This yellow-background card is clearly well-worn, with heavy trimming at the left and bottom borders.  Still, a very scarce card in any grade, highly desirable among advanced collectors.

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