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Cap
Anson Tobacco, Gum, Playing Card and Team Cabinet Baseball Cards
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Year
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Set Name |
ACC Designation
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Variation
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Size
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Appx. Value
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1871
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Rockford Forest Citys Team Cabinet Card |
-
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(Extremely Rare)
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-
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-
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1872
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Wright & Gould Philadelphia Athletics Trade Card |
-
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(Extremely Rare: 1
known to exist)
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-
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-
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1874
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Philadelphia Athletics Team Cabinet Card |
-
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(Very Rare)
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-
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Sold at auction in
2006 for $37,000
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1882
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Chicago Photographic Studios Chicago White Stockings Team Cabinet Card |
-
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(Very Rare)
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-
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1886
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Lorillard's Climax Tobacco Chicago White Stockings Team Card |
-
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-
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4" x 5 1/2"
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$13,500 NM
$6,750 EX $4,000 VG |
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1887
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Allen & Ginter's World's Champions |
N28
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-
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1 1/2" x 2 3/4"
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$5,000 NM
$2,500 EX $1,500 VG |
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1887
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Buchner Gold Coin |
N284
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Hands Outstretched
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1 3/4" x 3"
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$3,250 NM
$1,450 EX $650 VG |
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1887
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Buchner Gold Coin |
N284
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Left Hand on Hip
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1 3/4" x 3"
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$4,250 NM
$1,900 EX $850 VG |
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1887
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Old Judge |
N172
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Street Clothes with
Lithographer's Line
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1 7/16" x 2 1/2"
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$8,500 NM
$3,825 EX $2,125 VG |
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1887
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Old Judge |
N172
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Street Clothes w/o
Lithographer's Line
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1 7/16" x 2 1/2"
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$8,500 NM
$3,825 EX $2,125 VG |
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1887
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Old Judge
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N172
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Baseball Uniform |
1 7/16" x 2 1/2"
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$80,000 NM
$36,000 EX $20,000 VG |
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1887
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Tobin Lithographs |
H891
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Black and White
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3" x 4 1/2"
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$2,500 NM
$1,000 EX $500 VG |
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1887
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Tobin Lithographs |
H891
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Color
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3" x 4 1/2"
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$1,325 NM
$525 EX $275 VG |
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1888
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Base Ball Playing Cards |
WG1
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-
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2 1/2" x 3 1/2"
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$6,250 NM
$2,500 EX $1,250 VG |
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1888
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G & B Chewing Gum |
E223
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Batting
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1 1/16" x 2 1/8"
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$20,000 NM
$8,000 EX $5,000 VG |
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1888
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G & B Chewing Gum |
E223
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Photo Portrait
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1 1/16" x 2 1/8"
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$37,500 NM
$15,000 EX $9,375 VG |
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1888
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Goodwin Champions |
N162
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-
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1 1/2" x 2 5/8"
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$10,000 NM
$4,500 EX $2,000 VG |
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1888
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Joseph Hall Photographic Studios (Brooklyn, NY) White Stockings Team Cabinet Card |
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-
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$35,000 NM
$17,500 EX $10,000 VG |
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1888
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Old Judge Cabinets |
N173
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Old Judge
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4 1/4" x 6 1/2"
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$13,500 NM
$8,000 EX $5,800 VG |
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1888
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Old Judge Cabinets |
N173
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Dogs Head
& Old Judge (Very Rare) |
4 1/4" x 6 1/2"
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$30,000 NM
$18,000 EX $12,500 VG |
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1888
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Sporting Times |
M117
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(Very Rare)
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4 1/2" x 7 1/4"
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$35,000 NM
$17,500 EX $10,000 VG |
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1888
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Stevens Studio Austrailian
Tour Cabinets
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-
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- |
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$10,000 NM
$5,000 EX $3,000 VG |
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1888
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Yum Yum Tobacco
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N403
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Illustration Type |
1 3/8" x 2 3/4"
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$15,000 NM
$7,500 EX $4,500 VG |
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1888
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Yum Yum Tobacco
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N403
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Photo Type |
1 3/8" x 2 3/4"
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$30,000 NM
$15,000 EX $9,000 VG |
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1889
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E.R. Williams Card Game |
-
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-
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2 1/2" x 3 1/2"
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$2,400 NM
$1,200 EX $700 VG |
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1889
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Goodwin "Round" Album Pages |
A35
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-
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8 1/4" Diameter
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$3,000 NM
$1,500 EX $900 VG |
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1889
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Sporting Extra Cigarettes |
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Chicago Base Ball
Tourists Team Imperial Cabinet Card of 1888-89 World Tourists (Extremely
Rare: 1 known to exist)
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9 3/4" x 6 1/2"
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$30,000 NM
$15,000 EX $9,000 VG |
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1895
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Mayo's Cut Plug |
N300
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1 5/8" x 2 7/8"
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$16,000 NM
$6,400 EX $3,200 VG |
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1899
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National Copper Plate |
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10" x 13"
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$2,000 NM
$800 EX $400 VG |
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Cap Anson Collectible Advertising
Premiums, Publications & Miscellaneous Collectibles
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Year
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Manufacturer | Description |
Size
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Est. Value
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1880's
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M. G. Rubel & Co. (Chicago, IL) | "The Bat" cigar label featuring Cap Anson, Chicago White Stockings (left) and Tim Keefe, New York Giants (right). |
9" x 6"
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Sold at auction in
1999 for $12,650
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1880's
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M. G. Rubel & Co. (Chicago, IL) | "The Bat" cigar label variation, possibly a side panel label. |
9" x 6"
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$9,000
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1884
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Climax Tobacco | Representatives of Professional Base Ball in America poster. |
26" x
20"
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$25,000 NM
$12,500 EX $7,500 VG |
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1886
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Chicago White Stockings Team Silk | Team image of 1885 World Champions. Each player is pictured in uniform and identified next to his image. Includes: McCormick, Williamson, Burns, Clarkson, Sunday, Gore, Flint, Anson, Pfeffer and Kelly. |
7 1/2" x 4 1/4"
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$2,000
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1888
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E &.J. Burke | The E. & J. Burke ale brewing company issued this lithographic advertising poster to promote its Pale Ale and Extra Stout brews. Anson and fellow Hall-of-Famer Buck Ewing are shown enjoying a cold one as a game takes place in the background. This is considered one of the finest American advertising posters ever created. Only three are known to exist, one is in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
18" x 23 1/2"
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$100,000-$150,000
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1888
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Orcutt Lithograph
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Advertising piece showing
President Grover Cleveland meeting members of the Chicago White Stockings
before the world tour of 1888-89. Cap Anson is shaking the president's
hand.
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24" x 31"
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$5,000 to $7,000
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1889
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Grosscup's Merchant
Tailoring (New Jersey)
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"Team Currency"
advertising premium. Front pictures team manager (Albert Spalding) and
captain (Anson). Back pictures members of 1888 Chicago White Stockings.
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9" x 3 1/2"
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$400 to $600
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1889
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Uncle Sam Magazine | The August 1889 issue of Uncle Sam has a stirring color lithograph portrait of a handsome, mustachioed Cap Anson on the cover with an illustrated game scene, patriotic images and an ode to Anson ("Chicago's Hero") reading: "There was a ball player named Anson, Who kept his crack Colts busy prancin. He directed their paces, As they ran 'round the bases." |
10" x 13"
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$150 to $250
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1894
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Temple Cup Steel Engraving | A steel engraving by reknown artist Hy Sandham. The print features a magnificent rendering of the Baltimore Orioles and New York Giants in action in the original Polo Grounds during the ‘94 Temple Cup. The top border depicts twenty individual portraits of baseball executives of the time, including Cap Anson. |
53" x 39"
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Sold at auction in
2006 for $35,900
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1894
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Young Sports Five Cent Library | Weekly publication for young boys by Young Sports Publishing Company of 19 Beekman Street, New York NY. Issue #39 dated May 4, 1894. 8 page article about the life of Cap Anson, with 3 half page illustrations. |
10" x 14"
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$600 to $800
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1895
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Police Gazette | "Our Baseball Heroes" poster featuring the 12 captains of the National League in 1895. Printed by the popular late 19th century magazine "The Police Gazette." |
24" x 18"
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$3000 to $4000 |
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1895
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Sporting Times Score Card | 4 page scorecard special advertising giveaway to promote The New York Sporting Times featuring Anson (center), Ward, Clarkson, Comiskey, Ewing, Glassock and Kelly. |
8 1/2" x 12"
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Sold at auction in
1999 for $4,312
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1898
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American Cameo Pepsin GumCompany | Celluloid pin-back manufactured by the William & Hoag Company as a premium for Cameo Pepsin Gum. This was the first major baseball pin-back set, and featured sepia toned photos for most of the day's biggest stars. |
1 1/4" dia.
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$2,400 NM
$1,200 EX $725 VG |
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1900's
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Capt. Anson's Pocket Score Board For Base Ball Games | Anson lent his name to this novel scoring aid, which allowed fans to keep score by moving small, metal pins in a punch-hole cardboard pocket card. |
4 1/2" x 7 1/4"
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$300 to $500
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1910's
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Huening (Burlington, WI) | "La Flor De Anson" cigar box label issued after Cap's playing days. |
7" x 5"
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$1,500 to $2,000
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1910's
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Huening (Burlington, WI) | A label variation of the "Flor De Anson" cigar box label. |
7" x 5"
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$1,500 to $2,000
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1918
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Orpheum Theatre | Postcard promoting Ring Lardner's Vaudeville play "A Baseball Skit." Cap and two of his daughters performed in this play, which traveled the Orpheum Theatre's circuit throughout the Eastern and Midwestern United States. |
6" x 4"
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$200 to $500
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1920's
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Pfeffer's Theater Court
Buffet
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Issued years after the actual event, this postcard remembers the famous White Stockings "Stonewall Infield" of Cap Anson, Ed Williamson, Tom Burns and Fred Pfeffer. This quartet toured the world as part of Albert Spalding's 1888-1889 Around the World Tour. The postcard was given away at Pfeffer's restaurant as a promotional keepsake. |
9" x 3 1/2"
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$500 to $700
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