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 card of Portland catcher Jim Byrnes (misspelled "Byones"), graded PR 1 by SGC.  The grade is largely the result of a faint owner's stamp on the reverse; the card itself exhibits light wear but little that would bring it down as low as a POOR grade, as the wear seems more appropriate for a F-G assessment.  Still, an extremely difficult issue, where condition is almost an afterthought.