Items For The Auction of November 10th, 2007       Lot Number Item Description Est. Price Range Sold For Price   601 1910 E90-2 American Caramel Honus Wagner. Rare and attractive early candy card is one of the more sought after Wagner cards of its type. Well centered example has rich original color and light even corner wear. The top left and right corner areas each have some light surface wrinkling and the reverse has some toning (possibly from slight moisture?). Attractive card that displays as a strong VG example: PSA 2 GD ($2,000.00-$3,000.00) $3,500.00   602 1910 E93 Standard Caramel Frank Chance: SGC 40 VG ($400.00-$500.00) DNS   603 1910 E98 Christy Mathewson. Card front exhibits some light creasing while retaining nice color. The card back has significant abrasions: SGC 10 PR ($400.00-$500.00) $800.00   604 Lot of (8) 1909 E95 Philadelphia Caramel baseball cards. Includes Morgan, McIntyre, Carrigan, Doyle, Lord, Devlin, Krause, and Merkle. (3) of the cards have a minor surface abrasion on the back: Range VG-EX+ ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $800.00   605 1909 E-101 Honus Wagner card. Early Wagner issue exhibits rich original colors with even corner wear. Back remains clean with printing intact. The top border area has a very minute area of paper loss which accounts for the technical grade of SGC 30 GD which would otherwise grade GD/VG or VG: SGC 30 GD ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $1,200.00   606 Lot of (3) 1909-11 E90-1 American Caramel cards to include: Hal Chase: SGC 40 VG, George Mullin: SGC 40 VG, and Bill Bailey: SGC 60 EX ($400.00-$500.00) $350.00   607 Collection of (12) 1910 E98 "Set of 30" baseball cards. Tough grouping of early candy cards to include: Mullin, McLean, Kling, Dahlen, Chase, McGraw, Evers, Bresnahan, Clarke, Collins, Davis, and Mack. All of the cards have varying degrees of back damage. The card fronts range in condition and four have small ink numerals written in the margins. Others have some toning or varied creasing. Representative grouping of a rare and desirable candy issue: Range GD-VG/EX (With exception of back damage) ($1,500.00-$2,500.00) DNS   608 Lot of (4) 1909 E95 Philadelphia Caramel baseball cards to include: Ed Cicotte: SGC 60 EX, Tommy Leach: SGC 70 EX+, Nick Maddox: SGC 70 EX+, and Hooks Wiltse: SGC 80 EX/NM ($750.00-$1,250.00) $1,900.00   609 1909 E95 Philadelphia Caramel Christy Mathewson. Card front remains very fine with a small line crease at the top edge/corner. Back has a light surface abrasion at the top left corner area. Card presents very well as VG-VG/EX: SGC 30 GD ($500.00-$750.00) $900.00   610 Lot of (5) 1909 E95 Philadelphia Caramel baseball HOF'er cards to include: Eddie Collins: SGC 20 FR, Johnny Evers: SGC 30 GD, Vic Willis: SGC 40 VG, Chief Bender: SGC 30 GD, and Eddie Plank: SGC 20 FR. The card fronts present in much higher condition grades (Ranging from VG-EX/MT), while the card backs each have either a very minor surface line "scratch" or small line abrasion. ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $1,200.00   611 Rare 1910 E104-1 Jack Lapp. Well centered card with bright original color and a tiny 'nick' at the lower right corner. Corners are lightly rounded evenly. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG ($400.00-$600.00) $1,000.00   612 Rare 1910 E104-1 Harry Davis. Well centered card with bright original color and light even corner wear. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. The offered card is identical to the original "Swift's" Harry Davis card that we handled in 2002. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG ($500.00-$750.00) $1,000.00   613 Rare 1910 E104-1 Danny Murphy. Well centered card with bright original color and light even corner wear. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address and has some areas of light staining. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG ($400.00-$600.00) $850.00   614 Rare 1910 E104-1 Topsy Hartsel. Perfectly centered card with rich original color and light even corner wear. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG-EX ($500.00-$750.00) $1,100.00   615 Rare 1910 E104-1 Chief Bender. Well centered card with rich original color and light even corner wear. The bottom left corner has a line crease. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $1,700.00   616 Rare 1910 E104-1 Connie Mack. Card is centered slightly to the top with rich original color and light even corner wear. The front of the card has a very light horizontal toning 'line'. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $2,500.00   617 Rare 1910 E104-1 Jimmy Dygert. Well centered card with strong original color and light even corner wear. The card has a vertical line crease. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with uncommon full street address. Graded SGC 20 FR: GD-VG ($400.00-$600.00) $1,000.00   618 Rare 1910 E104-1 Ira Thomas. Well centered card with bright original color and light even corner wear. Card has a small corner crease at the upper left and is slightly offcut at the top right. Uncommon "Swift's Variety Shop" full name stamping appears on the reverse with complete address. Graded SGC Authentic: VG ($400.00-$600.00) $600.00   619 Rare 1910 E104-1 Cy Morgan. Card is centered slightly to the left with bright original color and light even corner wear. Bottom right and top left corners have creases. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. Graded SGC 20 FR: GD- ($400.00-$600.00) $400.00   620 Rare 1910 E104-1 Eddie Plank. Very strong condition example is centered slightly to the top (measures short top to bottom, either offcut or trimmed) with rich original color and light even corner wear. The back of the card has a small piece of additional paper mentioned for accuracy only. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. Graded SGC Authentic ($500.00-$750.00) $1,300.00   621 Rare 1910 E104-1 Harry Krause. Well centered card with fairly strong original color and light even corner wear. Card back has two small surface abrasions. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with uncommon full street address. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG ($400.00-$600.00) $500.00   622 Rare 1910 E104-1 Frank Baker. Well centered card with rich original color and light even corner wear. Bottom right corner area has some very minor surface wear. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. One of the better condition examples in the group with note to the fact that Baker is a HOF'er: Graded SGC 20 FR: VG-EX ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $2,400.00   623 Rare 1910 E104-1 Harry Lord. Well centered card with strong original color and light even corner wear. Card back has some age toning and a tiny line crease at the top left corner. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with uncommon full street address. Grade SGC 20 FR: VG ($400.00-$600.00) $700.00   624 Rare 1910 E104-1 Rube Oldring. Card is centered slightly to the top with strong original color and light even corner wear. The top right corner and bottom edge each have some very minute surface flakes. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with uncommon full street address. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG ($500.00-$750.00) $850.00   625 Rare 1910 E104-1 Eddie Collins. Well centered card with rich original color and light even corner wear. Top right corner has a small line crease. "Swift's" stamping appears on the reverse with partial address. Graded SGC 20 FR: VG ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $1,700.00   626 Lot of (17) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes J.Delahanty (PSA 1 PR-FR), Chase (holding trophy, PSA 2 GD), Covaleski, Shaw, Doolin, and H. Davis. All cards have either Old Mill, Pied., or Sw. Cap. backs: Range PR-VG/EX ($450.00-$650.00) DNS   627 Lot of (20) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes Chase (throwing w/dark cap, BVG 3 VG), Chase (port., blue), Wilson, Knight, and Magee: Range GD-VG/EX ($450.00-$650.00) $475.00   628 1909-11 T-206 Walter Johnson. Exceptionally clean exemplar of the 'hands at chest' variation exhibits strong original color with minimal corner wear. Sweet Caporal advertising back is equally clean. Highly sought after condition rarity: PSA 8 NM-MT ($7,000.00-$10,000.00) $8,000.00   629 Lot of (9) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco HOF'er cards. Includes Mathewson (dark cap, PSA 3 VG), Chance (port. red, PSA 2 GD), Joss (pitching, PSA 1 PR-FR), Marquard (port., PSA 3 VG), Bresnahan, Bender, Chance, Huggins, and Chance (batting, BVG 2.5 GD-VG): Range PR/FR-VG ($750.00-$1,250.00) DNS   630 Lot of (8) autographed 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Each card has been signed by the respective player on either the front or back to include: Dick Hoblitzell, (2) Lou Fiene, Otto Knabe, (3) Chief Meyers, and Jack Warhop. All cards have been graded authentic by SGC/James Spence Authentication: Cards: Range GD-VG/EX, Sigs: Range EX-NM ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $2,600.00   631 1909-11 T-206 Ty Cobb. Bat on shoulder variation is well centered with even corner wear and fairly clean Sweet Caporal back: PSA 3 VG ($750.00-$1,250.00) $1,250.00   632 1909 T-206 Walter Johnson. Portrait variation is well centered exhibiting light to moderate even corner wear with clean Sw. Caporal back: SGC 40 VG ($750.00-$1,000.00) $900.00   633 1909-11 T-206 Cy Young. Green portrait variation exhibits very fine original color with four fairly sharp to sharp corners. Sw. Caporal back remains clean. The card has a line crease at the bottom left corner and measures slightly short from top to bottom: SGC Authentic (EX-EX/MT appearance) ($300.00-$400.00) $475.00   634 Lot of (21) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards with rare Cycle advertising backs. Includes Donovan, Warhop, Jones, Phillippe, and Delahanty. Very clean condition group with several examples having EX/MT appearance with four sharp corners. All of the backs have varying degrees of toning ranging from very light to moderate: Range VG/EX-EX/MT (With note to back toning) ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $1,000.00   635 Lot of (39) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes Phillippe, Milan, Meyers, and Turner. All cards have either Sw. Caporal or Piedmont backs: Range VG-EX ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $950.00   636 Lot of (5) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards. Includes Cobb (red port.), Griffith, Chance, Walsh, and Marquard. All cards have either Sw. Cap., Pied., or P.Bear backs: Range GD-VG ($750.00-$1,000.00) $700.00   637 Lot of (7) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes Kleinow, Bost. (SGC 10 PR, back damage), F.Smith (Chic. & Bost., SGC 30 GD), Unglaub (Amer. Beauty back with some surface wear to the back): GD, Donlin (fielding): VG, Mullen (Cycle back): VG, Ferguson (Cycle back): VG, and Lundgren (Chicago, SGC 10 PR). ($400.00-$500.00) $275.00   638 Lot of (50) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes Pelty, Powers, Schmidt, Phelps, Cree, and Schaefer. All cards have either Pied. or Sw. Caporal backs. Majority of the cards grade VG: Range GD-VG/EX ($750.00-$1,250.00) $850.00   639 ***UPDATED DESCRIPTION*** Lot of (49) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes Kleinow, Maddox, Lord, Lake, and McIntyre. All cards have either Pied., Old Mill, or Sw. Caporal backs. Majority of the cards grade VG: Range GD-VG/EX ($750.00-$1,250.00) $850.00   640 Lot of (50) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes (2) Chase, Birmingham, Carrigan, Davis, and Ames. All cards have either Pied., P.Bear or Sw. Caporal backs. Majority of the cards grade VG: Range GD-VG/EX ($750.00-$1,250.00) $800.00     641 No Lot DNS   642 1909-11 T-206 Carl Lundgren. Rare "Chicago" team variation remains very clean with strong original color and four fairly sharp to sharp corners. El Principe de Gales back exhibits a faint bit of surface wrinkling near the center area accounting for the technical condition grade. (EX-EX/MT appearance): SGC 40 VG ($300.00-$400.00) $850.00   643 1909-11 T-206 Christy Mathewson with rare Cycle back. Dark cap variation exhibits rich original color with rare Cycle advertising back: SGC 40 VG ($250.00-$350.00) $425.00   644 Lot of (19) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards with rare Cycle advertising backs. Includes Chase, Cravath, Burns, Murray, and Fletcher. All of the backs have varying degrees of toning ranging from very light to moderate: Range GD-VG/EX (With note to back toning) ($750.00-$1,250.00) DNS   645 Lot of (3) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards with rare Cycle backs. Includes Marquard (port.): SGC 30 GD, Speaker: SGC 30 GD, and E.Collins: PR-GD. The card backs each have varying degrees of adhesive residue accounting for the technical condition grades. ($300.00-$400.00) $300.00   646 1909-11 T-206 Ty Cobb baseball tobacco card with very scarce Drum cigarette advertising back. Extremely rare Drum advertising back T-206 card ranks as one of the toughest of all T-206 back types. The card retains fairly strong original color with a few minor surface imperfections incl. stain and some light creasing. Drum advertising back has some light age toning and a small abrasion at the right side. The card has been slightly trimmed at the top edge. To the best of our knowledge, the offered example is the first Ty Cobb T-206 card with Drum back to be offered at auction. Impossibly rare card of the key player in the set: SGC Authentic ($2,000.00-$4,000.00) $4,250.00   647 Lot of (6) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards with very scarce Drum cigarette advertising backs. Group of extremely rare Drum advertising back T-206 cards ranks as one of the toughest of all T-206 back types. Players include Burch, Carr, Dineen, Arelanes, Barry, and Becker. All of the cards have been slightly trimmed along the top edge. Backs remain fairly clean: SGC Authentic ($1,000.00-$2,000.00) $3,400.00   648 Lot of (6) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards with very scarce Drum cigarette advertising backs. Group of extremely rare Drum advertising back T-206 cards ranks as one of the toughest of all T-206 back types. Players include McQuillan, Nattress, Davidson, Manning, Starr, and Overall. All of the cards have been slightly trimmed along the top edge. Backs remain fairly clean: SGC Authentic ($1,000.00-$2,000.00) $2,400.00   649 Lot of (6) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards with very scarce Drum cigarette advertising backs. Group of extremely rare Drum advertising back T-206 cards ranks as one of the toughest of all T-206 back types. Players include Fiene, Nichols, Unglaub, Zimmerman, Abstein, and Batch. All of the cards have been slightly trimmed along the top edge. Backs remain fairly clean: SGC Authentic ($1,000.00-$2,000.00) $1,700.00   650 Lot of (3) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards with very scarce Drum cigarette advertising backs. Group of extremely rare Drum advertising back T-206 cards ranks as one of the toughest of all T-206 back types. Players include Vic Willis, Frank Chance, and Sam Crawford. All of the cards have been slightly trimmed along the top edge. Backs remain fairly clean: SGC Authentic ($1,000.00-$2,000.00) $1,600.00   651 Lot of (5) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards with very scarce Drum cigarette advertising backs. Group of extremely rare Drum advertising back T-206 cards ranks as one of the toughest of all T-206 back types. Players include F.Delahanty, D.Murphy, Mitchell, Strang, and Slagle. All of the cards have been slightly trimmed along the top edge. Backs remain fairly clean: SGC Authentic ($1,000.00-$2,000.00) $2,800.00   652 Lot of (20) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Clean condition grouping includes Weimer, Wagner, Turner, Street, and Snodgrass. All cards have either Pied., Sw. Caporal, or P.Bear backs Range VG-EX ($750.00-$1,000.00) $800.00   653 Lot of (26) 1909-11 T-206 Southern League baseball tobacco cards. Substantive group includes Violat, King, Smith, Hart, Montgomery, Lipe, and Bastian. Majority of the cards grade VG or better with a fair amount of VG/EX examples and only a few PR/GD cards: Range PR/GD-EX ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $2,000.00   654 Lot of (20) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Clean condition grouping includes Davis, Donlin, Gasper, Demmitt, Atz, and Reulbach. All cards have either Pied. or Sw. Caporal backs: Range VG-EX ($750.00-$1,000.00) $900.00   655 Collection of (89) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Large grouping includes (2) Chase, Young, Merkle, Konetchy, Lentz, Pattee, Jordan, and Delahanty. Cards have either Sw. Caporal, Pied., or P.Bear backs. Approximately 1/4 of the cards in the lot have varying degrees of back damage: Range PR-VG ($1,500.00-$2,000.00) $1,400.00   656 Lot of (22) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Clean condition grouping includes Slagle, Gray, Ford, Laporte, Fiene, and Chase (holding trophy, graded SGC 50 VG/EX. All cards have either Pied. or Sw. Caporal backs: Range VG-EX ($750.00-$1,000.00) $750.00   657 Fine 1909-11 T-206 Nap Lajoie (with bat). Superb example is perfectly centered with four sharp corners and brilliant original color. Sweet Caporal back remains very clean. Outstanding example: SGC 88 NM/MT ($3,000.00-$4,000.00) $4,750.00   658 Lot of (5) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards to include: Griffith (port.): EX, Chance (port./yellow): SGC 20 FR, E.Collins (port.): SGC 40 VG, Willis (port.): SGC 60 EX, and Marquard (port.): SGC 50 VG/EX. All cards have either Sw. Caporal or Pied. backs. ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) $850.00   659 Lot of (14) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards to include: McGinnity, Evers (PR), Kelley, (3) McGraw, (2) Crawford, M.Brown, Marquard, Griffith, Huggins (port., SGC 30 GD), Evers (port., SGC 30 GD), J.Collins (port., SGC 30 GD). All cards have either Pied. or Sw. Caporal backs. Majority of the cards grade VG: Range PR (one card) to VG ($750.00-$1,250.00) $900.00   660 Lot of (12) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards to include: Lajoie (port.): SGC 20 FR, Tinker (port.): SGC 30 GD, Bresnahan (port, no cap): SGC 20 FR, Jennings (port.): SGC 20 FR, Baker, Clarke, Chance, Duffy, Tinker, Waddell, Tinker, and Huggins. All cards have either Sw. Caporal or Pied. backs. Majority of the cards grade VG: Range FR-VG ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) DNS   661 1909-11 T-206 Ty Cobb. Bat on shoulder variation with Sw. Caporal back is well centered with even corner wear: SGC 30 GD ($400.00-$600.00) $450.00   662 1909-11 T-206 Johnny Evers. With bat "Cubs" on shirt variation is very clean with Sw. Caporal back and four fairly sharp corners: SGC 70 EX+ ($350.00-$450.00) $600.00   663 1909-11 T-206 Ty Cobb. Bat off shoulder variation exhibits strong color with light even corner wear. The Sw. Caporal back remains clean except for some light line wrinkling at the top left corner. Card displays as a strong VG-EX example: SGC 40 VG ($750.00-$1,250.00) $850.00   664 Lot of (3) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards to include: Walter Johnson (hands at chest) Sw. Cap. back: SGC 10 PR, Christy Mathewson (port.), Sw. Cap. back: SGC 20 PR, and Christy Mathewson (white cap), Sw. Cap. back: SGC 40 VG ($450.00-$650.00) $550.00   665 Lot of (41) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes Gandil (SGC 30 GD), Snodgrass, Murphy, Adkins, Brain, and Dougherty. All cards have either Pied., P.Bear or Sw. Caporal backs. Majority of the cards grade VG: Range GD-VG/EX ($750.00-$1,250.00) $650.00   666 1909-11 T-206 Walter Johnson. Portrait variation is well centered with even corner wear and clean Piedmont back: SGC 40 VG ($500.00-$750.00) $475.00   667 Lot of (11) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er portrait variation tobacco cards to include: Beckely (PR), Chesbro, McGraw, Brown, Wallace, Chance (red, PR), Clarke, Waddell, Keeler (SGC 20 FR), Walsh (SGC 30 GD), and Joss (SGC 20 FR). All cards have either Pied. or Sw. Caporal backs: Range PR (one card) to VG ($1,000.00-$1,500.00) DNS   668 Lot of (2) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards: Cy Young (port.), Pied. back: SGC 30 GD and Cy Young (glove showing), Sw. Caporal back: SGC 40 VG ($500.00-$750.00) $600.00   669 Lot of (41) 1909-11 T-206 baseball tobacco cards. Includes Cicotte (SGC 50 VG/EX) Cravath, Tannehill, Sweeney, Hinchman, and Hoffman. All cards have either Pied., P.Bear or Sw. Caporal backs. Majority of the cards grade VG: Range GD-VG/EX\ ($750.00-$1,250.00) $650.00   670 Lot of (8) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards to include: Jennings (both hands), Evers (w/bat, Chicago on shirt), Flick, Wheat, Keeler (w/bat), Bresnahan (w/bat), Tinker (bat off), Bender (pitching, no trees). All cards have either Sw. Caporal, Pied., or Old Mill backs and have been graded SGC 40 VG ($1,500.00-$2,000.00) $1,500.00   671 Lot of (6) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards to include: Lajoie (throwing): SGC 40 VG, Willis (w/bat): SGC 30 GD, Bender (w/trees): SGC 30 GD, Jennings (one hand): SGC 30 GD, Joss (pitching): SGC 30 GD, and Willis (throwing): SGC 20 FR. All cards have either Pied. or Sw. Caporal backs ($750.00-$1,000.00) $650.00   672 Lot of (4) 1909-11 T-206 baseball HOF'er tobacco cards to include: M.Brown (Chicago on shirt): SGC 60 EX, Marquard (follow through): SGC 50 VG/EX, Lajoie (w/bat): SGC 40 VG, and Speaker: SGC 20 FR ($750.00-$1,000.00) $700.00