Lot # 1047: 1917 E135 Collins-McCarthy #153 Ferd Schupp - SGC GOOD 2

Category: 1900-1948

Starting Bid: $75.00

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Item was in Auction "Summer, 2024 Premier Auction",
which ran from 9/12/2024 4:00 AM to
9/28/2024 9:00 PM



From Collins-McCarthy, the company which offered the long run of Zeenuts cards, this 1917 set now known as E135 offered 200 new subjects. While the company had been known for producing cards featuring players of the Pacific Coast League, the E135 set switched their focus to the National and American Leagues. Produced at a time when few sets were being issued, it gave collectors and baseball fans on the West Coast a look at players they had only read about in the newspapers or  in the annual Spading guides. While this set shares many photos with the later E121 set and the much-later E126 issue (both from American Caramel), this E135 set came first.

Centering is far north on the canvas, leaving no upper border and showing a partial upper border from the card below. Though the corners and edges are far nicer than the number, surface abrasions and some soiling further explain the card's grade. Nevertheless, the scarcity of this issue far outweighs any cosmetic flaws on this example.

SGC has only ever graded 8 total examples of this 1917 E135, with only TWO receiving a higher grade than the Good 2 offered here of Fred Schupp.

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