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Lot Number: 417

Description: 1888 N162 Goodwin Champions non-baseball partial set (25/50) with scarce Harry Beecher football card. Tremendous and difficult-to-assemble lot offers (25) different cards from the classic Goodwin Champion set, often considered one of the most beautiful and artistic sports card sets of all time. No baseball players are included (some offered separately in this auction), though the lot is highlighted by what is considered the world's first football card: Harry Beecher (PR). Balance of the lot features boxers, bicyclists, wrestlers and other sportsmen. In addition to Beecher, included (in generally FR-GD condition with some better) are Buffalo Bill (hunter), Sullivan (pugilist), Stevens (bicyclist), Prince (bicyclist), Mitchell (puglist), Voss (strongest man), Muldoon (wrestler), Taylor (lawn tennis), Rowell (pedestrian), Hanlan (oarsman), Beach (oarsman), Teemer (oarsman), Capt. Bogardus (marksman), Page (high jumper), McLaughlin (jockey), Murphy (jockey), Dwight (lawn tennis), Sears (lawn tennis), Steinitz (chess), Slosson (billiards), Daly (billiards), Wood (bicyclist), Zukertort (chess) and Ross (swordsman). Range: PR-VG/EX.

Estimated Price Range: ($2,000-$3,000)

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