This regional set was issued late in the 1949 baseball season and quickly faded into obscurity. In the aftermath of World War II sportscard manufacturers were just beginning to kick back into production with 1948 sets produced by Bowman and Leaf along with some smaller issues like Topps Magic Photo Swell Sport Thrills and the like. Many of these sets featured black and white photography and many did not approach the level of quality that card-producing companies would reach just a few years later.Amidst the approaching postwar boom Eureka Sportstamps were one of the more attractive baseball issues. The stamps themselves were issued on team sheets that could then be broken into individual stamps to be affixed in a stamp album that contained additional biographical information on each player. Featuring only National League players (along with the NL president and commissioner of baseball) the Eureka set contained sixteen Hall of Famers among the 200 subjects featured.Initially a thinly-traded issue due to its scarcity (and possibly due to a lack of AL players) the set is beginning to grow in popularity as collectors discover its beauty and difficulty. Intended to be affixed in an album today they are frequently found torn with back damage or missing glue. The challenge of assembling a complete set - or even acquiring individual cards - in high grade has helped increase the value of complete sets or large lots of these cards. Indeed a complete high-grade set recently sold at auction for nearly $4 000. Presented here are 25 high-grade low-pop examples from this set of 200 stamps. The lot includes one PSA 10 (Banta) eight PSA 9s (including Mueller and Meyer) and sixteen PSA 8s (including Dark and Reiser). It is rare to see these stamps still with "full glue" on the back. This is a perfect way to get started on the quest to assemble a complete set of this obscure but beautiful regional postwar issue.