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1909-11 T206 Sweet Caporal 350-460/42OP Hughie Jennings (Both Hands Showing) PSA NM-MT 8 - Pop Two, None Higher! - From The Rounders Collection Offered is a 1909-11 T206 White Border tobacco card featuring Hall of Famer and coaches box cheerleader Hughie Jennings with the Detroit Tigers. The reverse displays a scarce "Sweet Caporal - 350-460 Subjects" advertisement with a factory 42 overprint caption. This card is his "Both Hands Showing" pose. He is featured on two different cards in the series. Condition Status: Only 1% of total T206 submissions to PSA, which is currently over 287,500 submissions have graded NM-MT or higher. Cards from this featured collection display rich, bold colors and clean white borders which are surrounded by quality corners and surfaces. Graded PSA NM-MT 8. Total submissions for this player/pose/brand combination is approaching eight hundred submissions. Only twenty-three of those examples have been confirmed with this combination, and this is one of only two examples graded NM-MT 8 with none graded higher!

More Information: The Rounders Collection

It began, as many baseball card collections do, with a boy in the 1950s buying packs of cards with friends. But while others flicked their cards against walls and attached them to their bicycle spokes, he winced at the damage. Cards were treasures meant to be preserved in the same pristine condition as when a pack was first opened.

Fast forward three decades to the 1980s and an alarming phone call from his mom -- "I’m cleaning out your old stuff from your room, including all these baseball cards." That call reignited a dormant passion, transforming a boyhood pastime into a lifelong pursuit.

This journey continued in the decades since, evolving through flea markets across the Carolinas and Virginia, Southern card shows with Marco Rol, and eventually to the digital frontier under the handle ‘Rounders2.’ Leveraging skills honed as a textile industry executive, he used his keen eye and astute attention to detail to assess tiny blemishes and ensure perfect color registration. As the grading industry emerged, he proactively pursued grading specifications with experts to deeply understand what qualities defined each grade. His precision-driven passion made him a fixture in the card-collecting community.

The result is a carefully curated, world-class collection demonstrating a love of the game's history and a deep appreciation for some of the most creative and beautiful cards. This overall collection and the sets within it were pieced together card by card, traded, and upgraded over the last forty years. His pursuit of perfection and talent for identifying cards that grade well and appreciate in value make this a one-of-a-kind collection, including high grade Hobby classics like 1933 Goudey Gehrig & Ruth, a T206 collection comprised of many stunning, high grade and low pop examples from the expansive and beloved tobacco card set, a 1964 Topps Standup collection that is the #2 Current Finest (and #3 All-Time Finest) on the PSA Registry and an extensive collection of baseball card wax packs from the 1950's through the 70's featuring packs from every year between 1953 and 1979.


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Auction Info

Auction Dates
Jan-Feb, 2025
31st-1st Friday-Saturday
Bids + Registered Phone Bidders: 31
Lot Tracking Activity: N/A
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Buyer's Premium per Lot:
22% of the successful bid per lot.

Sold on Jan 31, 2025 for: $10,980.00
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