From the company that offered the long run of Zeenuts, which featured
PCL players, the set known as E135 offered 200 subjects but switched
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
the annual Spading guides.
New York's Lew McCarty is the subject
of this example, graded Fair 1.5 by SGC due mainly to some light paper loss on the reverse which does not affect the front. While the centering on the front is southeast on the canvas, the corners and edges present much nicer than the grade. There is some light soiling in parts, but overall the card is bright and clean, giving it terrific eye appeal, regardless of the grade. However, the
scarcity of this issue far outweighs any perceived cosmetic flaws on
this example.
SGC has only ever graded 7 total examples of this E135,
with only four receiving a higher grade than the Fair 1.5 offered here of New York's Lew McCarty.