Start: 3/18/2025 12:00 AM EST End: 4/5/2025 9:00 PM EST
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Category: 1900-1948
Starting Bid: $100.00
Bids: 17 (Bid History)
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The "Full Count Find" is a multigenerational collection of cards the prewar component of which was assembled by a boy growing up in California in the early 1900s. While the collection"s prewar component included a variety of tobacco and caramel issues the most beautiful and interesting group within the collection were the 1915 Cracker Jacks. With nearly 140 different cards the set was almost 75% complete when it arrived at our offices on consignment from the family of the original owner. In fact when pulling the cards together and registering them as a set on the PSA Registry we were surprised to discover that the cards were collectively enough to land the set at #25 on PSA"s All Time Finest list and #17 on the Current Finest list. After considerable soul-searching however we decided that the best way to offer this outstanding collection would be to break it into lots and sell the components in smaller groups with most Hall of Famers listed individually and commons broken into a variety of smaller groups. Presented here is one of those lots from the "Full Count Find " an original owner collection of fantastic cards fresh to the hobby. One of the interesting things about the 1915 Cracker Jacks in the Full Count Find is their almost uniform wear throughout the collection. With the exception of a small number of cards that exhibit significant staining on the reverse virtually all the Cracker Jacks in the collection boast a very strong presentation but lighter corner rounding that prohibit the cards from achieving an EX or better grade. Centering and color is typically strong the card surfaces are clean and unblemished and the image quality is spectacular. With a few minor creases here and there virtually all of these cards could be graded the same.While many of the cards graded in the VG to VG/EX range obviously some graded lower due to some technical flaw that reduced the card"s grade. Usually the flaw was related to minor corner creases many of which are exhibited in this group of nine cards that includes many of the day"s most famous names. Included here are the following: #4 Larry Doyle (PSA GOOD 2) #34 Ira Thomas (PSA GOOD+ 2.5) #79 Ping Bodie (PSA GOOD+ 2.5) #82 Gavvy Cravath (PSA GOOD+ 2.5) #114 George Moriarty (PSA GOOD 2) #129 Ray Caldwell (PSA GOOD+ 2.5) #138 Hank Gowdy (PSA GOOD 2) #176 Hippo Vaughn (PSA GOOD 2) and #26 James Scott (PSA GOOD 2 MK writing on the sur