T206 Find with 73 Tolstoi Cards + 2 Lenox Cards

[bdecsports]

We just acquired an interesting find of T206 baseball tobacco cards, which originated from a single-owner estate in Minnesota, and despite only being 77 cards, it contains an astounding 73 cards with Tolstoi backs (incl. 12 HOF w/ Cobb), a pair of Lenox backs (Marquard & Abbaticchio) & a pair of EPDG. This was a first in our 29 years of dealing...a T206 tobacco card collection with no Piedmont, Sweet Caporal or Polar Bear cards!!!

The collection also includes several boxing cards, including some Red Sun & Tolstoi, along with some track & field, and many other non-sports cards from the era.

Regarding the T206 Tolstoi tobacco baseball cards, they are all previously known players on the confirmed list compiled by Ted Zanidakis.

Regards,

Bryan Dec

[Brian Van Horn]

Nice pickup, Bryan.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Congrats, that is very cool. Boxing were T218's?

[Exhibitman]

Which boxing cards?

[pherbener]

Very cool pickup Bryan!

[bdecsports]

The boxing includes 28 T220's (all with Tolstoi backs), plus a large group of T218's (Tolstoi & Hassan backs), along with 4 Red Sun boxing cards, etc.

[njdunkin1]

Astounding! That is a spectacular selection. Great pickups!

[CobbSpikedMe]

Thanks for sharing Bryan. I love hearing about finds like this. Awesome.

[Joe_G.]

Congrats Bryan, nice find. Would appear to be an original mid-west find, not very common. Not what I collect but interesting just as well.

I'll ask what everyone else is wondering . . . Are these auction bound, will they hit the show circuit, or other?

Congrats Again!

[Rich Falvo]

Very cool. Would be interested in seeing the list of specific players.

[Rookiemonster]

Wow ! Very nice must be awesome. Where did the find take place?

[Jason]

Im glad to hear of the recent find. Dedicated Tolstoi smoker pretty cool.

[ullmandds]

russian immigrant?

[MR RAREBACK]

Send me some prices

[brianp-beme]

Interesting haul of non-common T206 cards.

Let me know if my memory is inaccurate, but I seem to remember it being mentioned that Minnesota was a distribution area for Tolstoi and El Principe De Gales T206 cards. Perhaps some of the other more common brands were not available there?

Brian

[rhettyeakley]

Very cool find! That guy loved his Tolstoi Cigarettes!

Not surprising that Lenox and Tolstoi would be found together as they shared a few of the same sets in the non-sports world T79 & T80 Military series. They were "sister brands" in some respects.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Any silver borders in the T220's? How are you planning on selling these?

[jbsports33]

Great stuff! If you need help with the boxing let me know or talk with Gary - good to talking with you at the last Philly Show - good luck in 2018, your off to a great start

Jimmy

[bdecsports]

There are no plans on getting them graded as of now, and here's the list for the T206 Tolstoi lot. I know there are 74 cards listed, but the Beckley is only 2/3 of a card, so:

Ames (Hands Above)
Baker
Ball (Cleveland)
Beckley
Bell (Follow Through)
Bender (No Trees)
Bescher (Hands in Air)
Bradley (Batting)
Bridwell (Portrait w/Cap)
Camnitz (Hands Above)
Carrigan
Chance (Batting)
Chance (Portrait-yellow)
Chase (Portrait-blue)
Chase (Dark Cap)
Chase (Trophy)
Cobb (Portrait-red)
Conroy (Batting)
Crandall (Portrait w/Cap)
Davidson
Devore
Donlin (Batting)
Donovan (Throwing)
Downey (Batting)
Larry Doyle (Portrait w/Cap)
Duffy
Dygert
Evans
Evers (Chicago on Shirt)
Ford
Gandil
Geyer
Griffith (Batting)
Hayden
Herzog (Boston)
Howell (Hands at Waist)
Hummell
Konetchy (Glove Low)
Lake (Ball in Hand)
Lake (No Ball)
Latham
Lattimore
Leifield (Batting)
Magee (Batting)
McGraw (Glove at Hip)
McGraw (Portrait w/Cap)
McQuillan (Batting)
Merkle (Throwing)
Meyers
Murphy (Batting)
Murray (Portrait)
Needham
Oldring (Batting)
Overall (Hands at Waist)
Payne
Perring
Pfeffer
Randall
Schlei (Portrait)
Seymour (Portrait)
Sheckard (Glove Shows)
F. Smith (Chicago & Boston)
Steinfeldt (With Bat)
Stovall (Batting)
Street (Catching)
Sweeney (New York)
Sweeney (Boston)
Tannehill (Chicago)
Wheat
Wilhelm (Batting)
Willetts
Willis (Batting)
Wiltse (Pitching)
Wiltse (Portrait w/Cap)

[sycks22]

Love the hunt of new collections coming out every year. Nice pick up Bryan

[Rich Falvo]

Nice list. I was hoping some of the Providence players were on there.

[jbsports33]

Strong list of players!

[pokerplyr80]

Congrats that sounds like an awesome find. Nice to know they're still out there.

[jcmtiger]

Congrats Bryan Joe

[Thromdog]

Congrats on the find....who were the EPDGs?

[bdecsports]

The EPDG players are Jones (STL Browns) & Owen (W Sox).

[bdecsports]

I recently had several of the Tolstoi cards & the Marquard Lennox graded by SGC, and the first offering of the Tolstoi cards are currently on eBay, under seller JKAYMAC:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=jkaymac&_sop=1&_ipg=100&rt=nc

As always, if any Net54 members are interested in the Marquard, or any other fixed price items, I will give a discount outside of eBay.

Thanks,

Bryan Dec