Lot 35. 1910-11 S74 Silk of Johnny Evers. The silk is taped at the top and bottom to an index card. Otherwise, it has a vg-ex appearance.
Winning Bid $40.
Lot 37. 5 Early 1900s Postcards Capturing Baseball Action at U.S. Military Facilities. Four postcards are pre-linen. An especially interesting photo postcard shows the team from Troop E of the U.S. Army’s 6th Cavalry. Eleven members of this circa 1910-20 team display a trophy cup. “Baseball in the Camps” is the title of a color postcard with a batter, catcher and other players in uniform. Sackett & Wilhelms issued the Series No. 24 card. The other pre-linen cards are “Base Ball Game Between Atlantic and Pacific Fleets” issued in Panama and “Sports at the Station” (U.S. Naval Station, Great Lakes, IL), 1917. The latter card shows a baseball team, football game action and other sports activities. The fifth card, a linen issue, presents a ball game at the WAAC Training Center at Ft. Oglethorpe, GA. The cards average vg.
Winning Bid $20.
Lot 38. 7 Early 1900s Postcards of Baseball in New England Including an Integrated Team. All are pre-linen examples. An integrated baseball team, apparently representing Ashby, MA, occupies a photo postcard. Two black players are on the high school team. Four other postcards capture baseball action in Massachusetts: “Watching a Baseball Game, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.”; “Country Club, Brookline, Mass.,” with a game in progress; “Glendale Park, Everett, Mass.,” with a crowd standing to watch a game; and “Watching the Ball Game at Highland Light, North Truro, Mass.” The two other cards show baseball in Maine or New Hampshire: “Baseball Field and Casino, Birch Island, Maine” and “Somersworth, N.H. Central Park Ball Grounds.” Two cards were postmarked, one in 1907 and the other, in 1918. These two cards also display messages on the back. These cards will make excellent additions to a vintage regional baseball postcard collection. They average vg.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 46. 10 House of David Postcards. Three are related to baseball, while the others show House of David Park or other scenes at Benton Harbor, MI. House of David baseball players are the subjects of two, and a third presents game action at the House of David Baseball Park. The House of David issued nine of the postcards. One card is p, and the others are vg-ex or ex.
Winning Bid $30.
Lot 49. 3 Different 1922-23 PB4 Kolb’s Mothers’ Bread Baseball Pins. These 7/8” pins exhibit portraits of the Reading, PA, Aces of the International League. Pins of Nig Clarke and Ray Gordonier are from 1922, and of R. Bates, from 1923. The Clarke and Gordonier pins have the paper backing and are nm. The Bates pin is ex-m. Bastian Bros. of Rochester, N.Y., produced the pins.
Winning Bid $55.
