In 1916 published Felix Mendelsohn produced two series of black and white photographic baseball cards that were designed with blank backs and also offered to a variety of companies with their advertisements on the reverse. The different sets have become extremely popular among type card collectors hobbyists building back runs and set collectors alike. Long underrated the challenge of completion coupled with the added layers of rarity associated with the various backs have increased collector interest particularly as type collecting becomes more popular. In addition to offering a number of different advertising backs from these two issues our Summer 2015 auction includes a large number of Hall of Famers and key cards with the tougher Famous & Barr advertisement on the reverse. The St. Louis clothing retailer was an early customer of Mendelsohn's M101-5 issue and continued with the M101-4 series. One of the higher-tier cards in the set Walter Johnson is actually one of the key cards in any set in which he appears. This example has been graded POOR by SGC due to surface abrasions heavy toning chipping at the border and several surface indentations along with a small pinhole. Despite all this wear however the card is actually fairly attractive for the grade the majority of the image of Johnson visible and clean. Still a difficult card of a popular Hall of Famer one of very few graded examples known. Population DataSGC Population: 2 total graded 1 at this level 1 higherPSA Population: 3 total graded 1 at this level 2 higher