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1912 Boston Garter Eddie Collins SGC Good 2 - The Only SGC or PSA Graded Example! ...
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1912 Boston Garter Eddie Collins SGC Good 2 - The Only SGC or PSA Graded Example! It's the blue whale of the trading card taxonomy--impossibly large, stunningly beautiful, and yet almost never seen by the human eye. This first (and arguably most famous) of three baseball-themed promotions from the good folks at Boston Garter featured a sixteen-man roster, one representative of each Major League team. Each subject is pictured wearing the promoted product as he prepares for battle in a locker room with a large picture window which clearly favors scenic views over privacy. A labeled suitcase identifies the player by name and team.The presented specimen is the only Eddie Collins representation appearing in either census of the two major grading services, and the reasons for that intense scarcity are not difficult to conceive. As text on verso explains, these unique commemoratives were produced as window signs for retailers and only made available to the general public by ordering through the retailer or Boston Garter directly--ten cents for one league, or twenty cents for both. Certainly the original production runs were minuscule relative to contemporary tobacco and candy issues. The inverse proportionality between size and odds for survival accounts for the rest, as these enormous 8x4" cards were far more susceptible to destruction than standard-sized models.
While this ancient relic comes by its Good 2 grade honestly, it will take some close inspection to find the cause. Zoom in on the lower half of this card in our online imagery and you should be able to to find thin rivulets of vertical creasing, faults that are essentially invisible otherwise. None of the creases break through the surface of the card, so the effect is a card with aesthetics well beyond its technical rating. But it should go without saying that the supreme rarity of this Dead Ball Era beauty renders all condition complaints moot anyhow.
Auction Info
2020 February 22 - 23 Winter Platinum Night Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction #50023 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
February, 2020
22nd-23rd
Saturday-Sunday
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