1/1 -- 1/25 Pre-War Items
 

We all hear about and see the 1/1 and 1/25 modern cards and memorabilia pieces now days at auction and on the internet. Let's see some real pre-war rarities...cards, cabinets, photos and other interesting pre-war gems with a known combined population of less than 25.

Good luck finding 25 of these:

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1927 Babe Comes Home card
 

1927 Babe Comes Home card, on card stock.

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one of only 2 I believe

Obviously there are probably some raw ones out there, and I don't know SGC's pop, but PSA has graded only five of these Carey type 1s:

I don't have anything super rare. 3 of my T206 Krause portraits have a combined PSA/SGC pop of 20 or less

some obscure items

More obscure ones

Not many of these around, not a card, calendar top.

WOW WOW and WOW

Super Nice Ruth Cards and Super Hard to find.

Been hunting for years to find one and you have 3.

Congrats on those

Here is a 1 of 1 (at least that is KNOWN)

Not quite pre-war, but I love this version of Old Gold Robinson. 1/22 combined graded. Great write up on the back.

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I rather have vintage. Take for example a 1/1 Mike Trout signed card. There are probably 100 if not more other 1/1 cards of Mike Trout.

That's an awesome card, Jeff.
Here is Chief..

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This is the only PSA graded Witmor Eddie Collins and there are only 25 total PSA graded Witmors. So that's rare, right?

This is a 1 of 1, and is currently for sale in Memory Lane (sorry for the shameless plug, but it does fit the OPs topic.

A few other rarities (from 1 of 1 to less than 10), including a rare side-kick to Jeff's amazing Joe Jax

This Type 2 R308 Tattoo Orbit of Pepper Martin (shown with the smaller R308 as well as the more common and colorful R305 for comparison) only exists as a NFT card.

Brian (NFT = Not For Pterodactyls...because phonetically speaking, they would make a mäk(ə)rē of this card)

That Wagner Harpers Whiskey issue is incredible.

MrReality. I don’t think that card can be topped.
Congratulations on owning that one.

WOW. Those are some gorgeous cards. Are there any more to the set?

1/1

1 of 1
 

Speaking of "1 of 1".......I have four T206's that are unique. Plus, a 1904 team card that appears to be unique.
I acquired these "goodies" over the past 30+ years. I have searched for a 2nd. So far, they still remain unique.


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The DRUM card of Frank Delahanty in my A - B - C - D connection here is unique.

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And, I'll throw into this mix a T206 proof.....unique, or what ? I have searched for another Puttman proof for many years.... to no avail.


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Last, but not least....Buffalo Bisons 1904 Team card, which represents a significant piece of BB history. The Bisons of the Eastern League were
considered the "World Champions", as there was no Major League World Series in 1904 (the NY Giants refused to play the Boston Americans).

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Not sure of the pop, but i don’t think there are 25 of them. Pinkerton Wajo

diamond star dickey blank back
 

1\1

Really love the W.W. Smith postcards like Ryan posted. Here's my Wagner and if we're including back variations, my current obsession set.

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Great thread!

Kid Nichols portrait cabinet taken by Chickering ca. 1897. Anyone ever see another?

Thanks! There are at least 3 more in this set, maybe more. I know the board members have a few of them. :)

Yes, I used to have one. I will have to dig out an image but I am pretty sure 1897 was inscribed in the negative and thus on the cabinet. A board member has it now(unless he has moved it).

W600 & E254 Toledo Flick
 

I think there are 3 or 4 of the W600s known and a similarly small size handfull of the Toledo Colgans.

Angyale

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Appreciated Joe and I enjoy having this card.

But there is a lot of Great Cards that would either top my card or give it a run.

This thread has many great and rare cards showing with more to come

Wouldn't surprise me if there are enough raw examples out there to get over 25, but thus far these two have a combined pop less than 25.

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My guess is that there are not 25 known of any specific Pinkerton cabinet.

Type card collectors have an unfair advantage in this thread. I paid less the second time I bought this one LOL

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Strictly for the Back
 

Living in Indy, I bought it strictly for the back. 1 of 2 graded, according to the combined pop reports.

As would 19th Century collectors.

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Pop 21 between SGC and PSA, but also the only card released for Walt "Smoke" Justis

Some great cards here!

Soon to be slabbed by SGC, but there are only 7 graded of the Huggins Port, Tolstoi reverse T206.

PSA - 4
SGC - 2
BVG - 1

Bill

Black factory 30 Evers/Chance
Blank back Mordecai Brown M116

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Nice M116. I've got an oddity of my own. Have seen some people suggest they're cut from a poster, but there are at least two Walter Johnson no names known and my card is the same stock as the regular issues:

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:eek: Wow! This Big Train collector kneels before its greatness.

SO there is another of these floating around? Learn something new everyday. I thought there was only one large grouping of them known.

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This 1916 D352 Morehouse Baking of WaJo is a 1 of 1 per the pop reports (no graded examples).

Ethan, please don't take this as a criticism of your post, but all or almost all of the individual cards in very many (if not most) of the pre-War sets have less than 25 examples known to exist. My pre-War favorites are the real-photo, black & white card sets from 1916, 1917 and 1920-22 with a plethora of advertising backs; there are less than 25 examples known of every card in most of these sets. IMHO, for a pre-War card to be considered truly rare there should be less than 5 examples known to exist.

Really like this one

Another round Wagner, and a square one

Here is an irregularly shaped Orange Border Wagner.

Brian

I think there's about 12 of these out there.
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Here is another Joe Jackson with a 1 of 1 (known) advertising back

Some amazing cards posted so far. This is not one of them, but it does echo Leon's point that this is a good thread for type collectors.

Another Wagner Orange borders (also ending in memory lane tmrw night)

The Joe Jacksons in this thread are off the hook

Sounds good that the Jacksons are off the hook :D


Love the Orange Border Wagner

We will put that down as another Shameless (but Strategic Plug)

Found the image, NOT Nichols as my mind had mistakenly recalled, but Bobby Lowe the year 1897 is in the written inscription on the negative on the photo and the team B is placed different, so the Nichols might be a year earlier or later???

The Nichols I was thinking of turned out to be a Omaha's N173...

Here's another "Authentic" 1-of-1 Green-Joyce. Jeff, care to do an even-up trade? :D

Well said, Val. And great WaJo! Can we see the Weil Baking too? :)

Thanks, Chad for your kind words. Per your request, here's my 1916 Weil Baking. I'm still looking for a 1917 Weil Baking - can anyone help?

Yeah, I totally agree. This was the case years back when I put together the E103 Williams Caramel set. I love seeing the 1/1 stuff the most, but in an effort to see more cards I decide to broaden the thread to include 1/1 -- 1/25...great looking stuff so far.

I get the E103, I am still working on my last two for the set…


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Love the Dukes…beautiful cards.

I like Val's idea of 5 or less known.... It would weed the posts down some. :cool:

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Would've been interesting to see a 2nd one. Thanks a lot for checking Scott.

I do imagine duplicates existed at one time. Whether any others survived is the unknown. Both Chickering and Horner used the images they took to provide to teams and family members, as well as for use in publications. They also offered them in their studios for sale to the public. So.... the chances that multiples once existed are pretty good. I once thought that most Horner cabinets were one of one's, now I have seen dupes of many of the players, even the more pedestrian players.

Great stuff everyone! I love the Ullman Postcards. Here's my Matty. Would love to get one of his brother!

Great card Paul, when you win the Legends league we will figure out a trade for Henry!

I always thought this was a Honey of a Card.
No idea how many are out there, so disregard if there are 26+

I believe that each of the cards from this set that is known to exist is a 1 of 1:

This is a scarce cobby.

Blank Back Ruth and a mini blanket

It may be a while but sounds good JC!

Nice cards Val

There are a bunch of low pops I wish I still had...still have a few...like these t216/d303 mystery blank backs.

1/1 Wagner and Cobb
 

These are both 1/1 unless there are other examples that I am unaware of which have turned up since I reported the existence of these to SCD back in the mid 90s.

Babe Ruth Pathe Freres. Only 15 have been graded between the two, not including my copy.

1909 Max Stein Ty Cobb. Only 6 graded between the two.

1910 PC796 Cobb/Wagner. Only 14 graded between the two.

Joe McGinnity’s 1911 Chicago Cubs Season Pass - the one and only. Going to be in REA’s fall catalog auction.

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Nice Leon, I imagine that was a private sale because I didn't see it come up and would have really liked a swing at it.

Nice items, and cool 1911 season pass...I especially like the "Captain Chance's Celebrated Chicago Champion Cubs" motto on it, and how the 'C' acts as a bracket for the alliteration.

Brian

Yes, it was a private sale. The person that I got it from I also got these from. They probably fit the thread. I was happy to get them back, albeit at 2x mark up....that's life. It wasn't like I was going to find them somewhere else. :eek:

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I never get tired of seeing the Bishop team cards. Thanks for posting Leon.

+1. It seems like only yesterday when Leon sold this A.W.A. card: https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/1...ription-071515

Dan, I now have 9 of the 12 E222s, but I doubt I'll ever complete this set. Hope all is going well for you.

It's interesting how these E222s were issued in different colors and with different back designs:

Salt in the wound.

When you and Val are finished maybe there will be a find. 50/50 on if that will be before or after pigs fly.

Congrats to both you and Val on your acquisitions. I have been stuck at 6 E222s and 2 E221s for a while.