Lot # 643: 1916 Burgess-Nash Co. #30 Ray Chapman - PSA GD 2 - Highest Graded!

Category: 1900-1948

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Clear, well-printed back variation for Burgess-Nash Co., an active wear store, from the M101-4/5 sets printed by Felix Mendelssohn. The photo shows ill-fated Ray Chapman warming up, the player best-known today for his death following a 1920 beanball from Carl Mays. Its PSA GOOD 2 grade reflects rounded corners and a diagonal crease along the left. This back variation proves exceedingly tough and PSA has graded just 10 such cards total. The population report shows this as the highest graded of two Chapmans!

M101-4 and M101-5 are sets Mendelssohn created with 200 ballplayers of the mid-1910s. Card backs often featuring ads from a range of stores and companies, no doubt for their own marketing purposes. Contemporary advertising shows some stores giving groups of cards away as an incentive for in-person shopping and others sold their sets by mail order.

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