Lot # 434: 1910 E99 Bishop & Company Chet Nourse - SGC POOR 1

Category: 1900-1948

Starting Bid: $50.00

Bids: 6 (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.

Blue-background card of Solons pitcher Chet Nourse, who signed a major league contract on the basis of his success as a pitcher for Brown University.  The subject of a great deal of speculation, similar to free agent speculation of today, several newspaper articles leaked that Nourse had signed with the Chicago Cubs - all incorrect, since he had agreed to sign with the Boston Red Sox upon graduating college.  After just three games in nine days with Boston,  Nourse was sent to the minors, ultimately latching on to the Sacramento Solons for 1910.  After a broken finger on his pitching hand never healed properly, he had it amputated, but was ultimately released by Sacramento before the end of the 1911 season, concluding his baseball career.

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