Auction #3 - October 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/27/2019
The 1956 Adventure set of (100) cards picturing athletes and people in adventurous sports, jobs and scenes of war and other tense instances. In addition to that are (19) cards picturing boxers in front of their flag. The Max Schmelling card #86 is generally considered the key to the set and very difficult to locate. Whether this is borne out in the census of cards or if the card, having Schmelling pictured in front of a Swastika, is collected by other collectors or has had copies destroyed--no one really knows.
This is a high grade set averaging EXMT to NM condition with only some centering issues and just a few cards with very light toning. The #86 Schmelling card is somewhat off centered but very tough card in any condition. All card fronts have been scanned and a sample of card backs as well.
Originating in the collection of a very advanced PSA collector, this set and a number of others in the auction are high mid-grade sets mostly free of creases and individually sleeved in semi-rigids housed in 4 pocket pages in binders. As with this set, many of the sets are mostly ungraded with some nice or key cards graded as noted.
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