Lot # 134: 1909-11 T206 Polar Bear Collection (79)

Category: 1900-1948

Starting Bid: $200.00

Bids: 20 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed


I have one to sell!

Lot / Auction Closed




This lot is closed. Bidding is not allowed.

Item was in Auction "Summer, 2013 Auction",
which ran from 7/31/2013 3:31 PM to
8/25/2013 7:55 AM



From the "Full Count Find " a collection of 79 cards representing 71 different subjects all with the Polar Bear reverse approximately 28% of the possible Polar Bear-backed cards. The collection includes a generous group of Hall of Famers stars and other tougher cards. Overall the collection grades in the F range (many worse) with many cards very presentable but possessing a variety of technical flaws including creasing and general wear. Specific major condition flaws will be noted below.Included in the collection: Abbaticchio Abbott Adkins Arellanes Ball Barbeau Barger Barry (2) Bergen Berger Brashear (2) Bridwell Brown (HOF - Chicago on shirt) Burch (very poor condition) Chance (HOF - Portrait yellow background) Chance (HOF - batting) Chase (holding trophy) Cravath (very poor) Crawford (HOF poor) Davis (Philadelphia) Delehanty (Louisville) Dessau (2) Devore Dougherty Doyle (NY - portrait) Evans (very poor) Evers (HOF - batting) Ferguson (2 - both poor) Flanagan Ford (2) Frill Geyer Graham (P pencil writing on front) Grimshaw Herzog (Boston) Howard Jackson Jones Jordan (P corner clips) Knight Krause Lake (with ball) Lake (without ball) Leifield (2) Maddox Maloney Needham Oakes (very poor) O"Neil Overall Pelty (2) Pfeister Quillen Schirm Schlafly Schlei Symour Sharpe Smith Snodgrass Steinfeldt Street Taylor Tannehill (Washington) Tannehill (Chicago) Tinker (HOF - batting - very poor) Wheat (HOF) White Wilhelm (very poor) Willett Willis (HOF pitching - 2 one very poor).The "Full Count Find" is an original owner collection assembled first by a young boy in California around the turn of the century. When the boy grew up and had a son of his own he passed along his tobacco collection to his son who fell in love with the cards and began collecting himself in the late 1950s. The result was a multi-generational collection of cards mostly pulled from packs or traded for in the era in which they were issued. Clearly a relative of the young boy was a user of Polar Bear tobacco as nearly all the T206s in the collection had Polar Bear backs. To preserve parts of the collection as they were initially collected we have elected to keep this grouping of Polar Bear cards together as one single collection in hopes that a collector from today can use it as the backbone of a Polar Bear back collection - and perhaps even continue that young boy"s quest by completing the set. 79 cards total.

Views: 85