Lot # 132: Scarce 1910-11 T3 Turkey Red #100 Davy Jones - SGC POOR 10 - low pop!

Category: 1900-1948

Starting Bid: $100.00

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Item was in Auction "Love of the Game February 2, 2013 Auction",
which ran from 1/14/2013 7:50 PM to
2/3/2013 8:14 AM



Davy "Kangaroo" Jones was an outfielder who played for fifteen seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers St. Louis Browns Chicago Cubs Detroit Tigers Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Rebels of the Federal League. Most of his career was spent in Detroit as the third member of an outfield that included Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford. Steady and Dependable Jones got on base stole bases and scored runs coming home 134 times in 1907.What"s important about Jones for the purpose of the T3 Turkey Red cabinet set however is not Jones" statistics but the extraordinary scarcity of his card particularly the example with the Turkey Red advertisement on the reverse. The second series of T3 baseball cards could be found either with a checklist or a Turkey Red Cigarettes ad on the reverse and in the case of Jones" card there is a distinct difference in scarcity the ad back being markedly more rare than the already-scarce checklist back. Case in point: between PSA and SGC there are just 13 graded copies of this card in existence.The card itself is accurately graded though the front does not reflect the grade as well as one would think. General wear and surface dirt is an indicator of this card"s scarcity; in comparison with the other cards we are presenting in this auction from this collection we can see that this was a card that was never upgraded by the original collector an indication that obtaining one must have been difficult. The card reverse has significant damage a good deal of paper loss consistent with scrapbook removal the number "100" written in pencil at the top and a curious number "0" stenciled or stamped at the bottom of the card.Still this is a tremendously difficult card to obtain in any condition one of the most scarce in the set.Population DataSGC Population: 4 total graded 0at this level 4 higherPSA Population: 7 total graded 0 at this level 7 higher*Please note that the population data we are providing here reflects just the examples of this card with the Turkey Red back. Among

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