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1929 Leader Novelty Set Still Holds Mysteries
April 28, 2019 By Anson Whaley

The 1929 Leader Novelty baseball card set is an interesting one, to be sure.

The cards are distinguished by their assortment of color tint images of baseball players on the fronts. The cards are found printed in either red, purple, green, or brown ink. They measure approximately 1 3/4″ x 2 5/8″, though the actual dimensions are known to vary a good bit. Fronts include the colored ink image of the player along with his name and team. A thick, uncolored border (often larger from top to bottom) is also present.

Collectors of other pre-war baseball cards might find the images of the subjects familiar. That’s because the cards include the same pictures used in the R316 Kashin baseball card set — a similarly unique issue with plenty of questions in its own right. Some believe the true Leader Novelty checklist could actually mimic the one in the R316 release. But if that is to be true, many cards from it appear to be missing in action.

The R316 Kashin set includes a total of 101 cards. But thus far, the 1929 Leader Novelty set has a total of only 34 cards according to most checklisting efforts. With new discoveries being made in recent years, that number could certainly be incorrect. But a leap from 34 known cards to just over 100 would mean that only about 1/3 of the set has been discovered.

The known 1929 Leader Novelty checklist is small but packed full of stars. The biggest one of all, Babe Ruth, is not yet found in the issue, and many others are missing, too. But collectors will find plenty of other big names from the 1920s and 1930s. Among them are the likes of Jimmie Foxx, Mel Ott, Pie Traynor, Al Simmons, Hack Wilson, Rogers Hornsby, Lefty Grove, and many more Hall of Famers.

Finally, collectors wanting to score a Leader Novelty card should be aware they are quite rare. They are not impossible to find and some are usually for sale on eBay at any given time. In addition, they will also pop up at more traditional auction houses. However, they are certainly difficult to find and make for a tough type card to acquire at a reasonable price. To date, PSA and SGC have graded only about 100 of them combined, making them relatively tough.