William Paterson
 

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William Paterson was a businessman and politician who lived in Canada a hundred years ago. He had a confectionery company in Brantford, Ontario, that produced a couple of popular hockey sets during the 1920s. The first hockey set that was put out by this company, the V145-1, is the most popular since it has the rookies of Howie Morenz, Frank Clancy, Aurèle Joliat and more. However, I was surprised to find out recently that a super-rare baseball set was also released by this company around the same time as the hockey cards. Known as the V89's, this set has some all-greats such as Ruth, Cobb and Hornsby. Here is the Ruth below:

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Is there anyone here who owns these baseball cards? If so, then show them off here!

Wm Paterson
 

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Therajah, I'm lovin' your great group of V89s!

Craaaazzzyyyyy!!!!

I have a Hoyt which actually pictures Pennock somewhere, but I guess I didn't scan it. This is my other. Love this pose and would love to find more HOFers from this set.

Great, elusive set. In particular, there are so many poses not seen on other cards. I have owned the Cobb but never the Ruth.

V89
 

Here is Mike McNally of NYAL in this series. Referred to as "Joe" his middle name. Also known as Minooka Mike - I like that better

Here's a thread from last year (pre-COVID!) with a dozen images, and I think three more in this thread. Can we get closer to a community full set?
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=280478

and my one example

https://i.ibb.co/2WqQBcK/Wm-Paterson-Milan-F.jpg


Bill

V-89 checklist, from Old Cardboard

1 Eddie Roush Cincinnati NL
2 Rube Marquard Brooklyn NL
3 Del Gainor St. Louis NL
4 George Sisler St. Louis AL
5 Joe Bush New York AL
6 Joe Oeschger New York NL
7 Willie Kamm Chicago AL
8 John Watson New York NL
9 Dolf Luque Cincinnati NL
10 Miller Huggins Mgr, New York AL
11 Wally Schang New York AL
12 Bob Shawkey New York AL
13 Tris Speaker Cleveland
14 Hugh McQuillan New York NL
15 "Long George" Kelly New York NL
16 Ray Schalk Chicago AL
17 Sam Jones New York AL
18 Grover Alexander Chicago NL
19 Bob Meusel New York AL
20 "Irish" Emil Meusel New York NL
21 Rogers Hornsby St. Louis NL
22 Harry Heilmann Detroit
23 Heinie Groh New York NL
24 Frank Frisch New York NL
25 Babe Ruth New York AL
26 Jack Bentley New York NL
27 Everett Scott New York AL
28 Max Carey Pittsburg
29 Chick Fewster Cleveland AL
30 Cy Williams Philadelphia NL
31 Burleigh Grimes Brooklyn
32 Waite Hoyt New York AL
33 Frank Snyder New York NL
34 Clyde Milan Washington
35 Eddie Collins Chicago AL
36 Travis Jackson New York NL
37 Ken Williams St. Louis AL
38 Dave Bancroft Boston NL
39 Mike McNally New York AL
40 John McGraw New York NL
41 Art Nehf New York NL
42 "Rabbit" Maranville Pittsburg
43 Charlie Grimm Pittsburg
44 Joe Judge Washington
45 Wally Pipp New York AL
46 Ty Cobb Detroit
47 Walter Johnson Washington
48 Jake Daubert Cincinnati NL
49 Zack Wheat Brooklyn NL
50 Herb Pennock New York AL

It's funny, this card just popped in my head today. I haven't seen one offered since I bought this one years ago.

Chick Fewster
 

Chick Fewster of the Cleveland Americans

A bit of background info about this card:

This was part of a complete set auctioned by Legendary Auctions in 2012, at the time described as the finest complete set in existence, previously sold in a Mastro Auctions Winter 2004 sale.

These were all PSA graded, many finest known, and can be identified by cert numbers beginning 3087- or 2077-.


https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1630806334

I've always liked these cards. My lone example.

<a href="https://ibb.co/j87sPNY"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/zmKDTMg/1922-V89-William-Paterson-Groh-F.jpg" alt="1922-V89-William-Paterson-Groh-F" border="0"></a><a href="https://ibb.co/kgZBfQV"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/pvqw8J6/1922-V89-William-Paterson-Groh-B.jpg" alt="1922-V89-William-Paterson-Groh-B" border="0"></a>