Inaugural January 2019 Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/27/2019
When people discuss the most beautiful card sets of the 19th century, the N162 Goodwin Champion set almost always tops their list. The set features bright, vivid colors and pictures champions from a number of popular sports. The most popular cards from the set continue to be the eight baseball players and the Beecher football card. In addition, cards for boxers are quite popular and the set includes early cards of John L Sullivan and Jack Dempsey among others. The set also pictures famous sports figures from Chess, Pedestrian, Tennis, Wrestling, Bicycling, Billiards and Rowing. The backs of the cards contain a checklist and can be found with or without a lithographer tagline at the very bottom of the card. A companion album was issued to complement the series.
This lot has four cards--two in VG which are both jockeys (McLaughlin and Wood) and two in F/G which are both billiard players (Schaefer and Vignaux) . The two billiard players do not have the lithographer line at the bottom and the two jockeys do have it.
N162 Goodwin Champions lot of (4) Cards
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