Heritage has huge 1914 high grade Cracker Jack set coming in January
 

Been a long time since a high grade full ‘14 cj set has been broken up and auctioned off. At least it’s been since well before the card craze of 20-21. Should be interesting to see how these cards do.

If Justin Herbert can sell for a fortune, going to be real curious what a high grade 1914 Cj Cobb and joe Jackson go for.

Its truly amazing isn't it

They are great series of cards and all of amazing eye appeal

Will be interesting to watch

Agreed

Is Heritage the auction house where in their rules they allow the house to bid on items ?

So many AH’s hard to keep track.

Should see some record highs for the set.

In a word... yes.

Well that's a major bummer, this doesn't seem like an auction for me.

Amazing how a card could be in a caramel popcorn box 108 years ago and not a trace of staining. It's like magic!

I don't know if this is one of them, and it might be, but a few of the 1914 sets were never put into boxes of Cracker Jacks. Therefore they won't have the common staining. I believe they were presentation sets.
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AH! Didn't know that. I know the 1915 set had a mail in option that allowed someone to get the full set.

I am almost positive 1914s did too. Randy Stuckmeyer (*RIP) had a set like that, I believe.
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That is my understanding as well. But no way of knowing for sure unless there is some providence to check but usually there is not
Regardless Beautiful cards and going to sell for alot and make the seller happy (unless Reserves) as well as some buyer happy

I happen love the caramel stains!

Great Card!!

They're not 14CJs without caramel stains.
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I thought some 14s were discovered that had been taken from the factory by an employee back in the day, I don't recall there were sets like the 15, but someone can correct me if I am remembering that wrong.

In any case, I am always highly skeptical of CJs that look too clean, but that's just me.

I agree! Great looking cards Phil - I think the grader(s) must have been smoking crack the day they slabbed those.

1914 cj
 

If I recall at a Cleveland National (I think 2004) a factory 1914 set walked into the show and Bill Mastro bought them. They were submitted to SGC and I think the Joe Jackson received a SGC 98 and many other cards with very high grade. The cards were sold privately, possibly to Randy Stuckmeyer.

I believe there was an article in Sport Collector's Digest if anyone has back copies to check.

Here is an old Net54 thread about the factory set I mentioned above.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=75425

The link to the SGC article no longer works.

And since it's Heritage, the winning bidders can look forward to receiving the cards by April 2022! ;) :)

Beautiful CJ's though.

I think they are the most beautiful set there is. Saw some of them at the Burdick exhibit at The Met and they are just stunning.