Auction #18 - October 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/10/2024
Arguably the most collected set of Allen & Ginter cards along with the N2 Indians, the N28 World's Champions are a beautiful set of 50 cards. The set contains athletes from a number of different sports including 10 baseball players as well as boxers, pedestrians, wrestlers, oarsmen, billiards players and rifle shooters. Among the more famous non-baseball players in the set are Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Jack Dempsey, Jake Kilrain and John L Sullivan.
The 10 baseball players contain 6 players who were subsequently inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame including John Ward, Adrian "Cap" Anson, John Clarkson, Charles Comiskey, and Mike "King" Kelly. The N28 set was the first set of Champions and Allen & Ginter followed it up with the N29 Second Series. Both were in competition with other sets like the N184 Kimball set and the N162 Goodwin Old Judge set.
This lot of (5) N28 Allen & Ginter World's Champions Billiard Players cards run the gamut from Good to near-EX. All have mostly clean backs with varying levels of wear.
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