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.
Washington's Ray Morgan has two different cards in the set, with this one depicting the second baseman holding his bat on his right shoulder. Centering is north and slightly east on the canvas. Corners and edges are consistent with
the grade. Some light soiling keeps it from grading higher than it already has, but this example has wonderful contrast in the printing, giving the front tremendous eye appeal.
SGC has only ever graded 4 total
examples of this 1917 E135, with only ONE receiving a higher grade than
the Good+ 2.5 offered here of Ray Morgan with a bat on his right shoulder.