Clean Sweep (10-12-22): Lot 627 “19th Century Baseball Players”
 

If you won this lot I would love to hear from you. I just need one of the players here (Johnny Bates), but I’m guessing whoever won also did, too!

https://www.cleansweepauctions.com/item-762291/




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I was hoping that lot or one of the others had an Erskine Mayer hiding in it...cleansweep isnt the best at identifying or describing big lots/rare obscure autos...but I did ask if Mayer was in any of them and they said no so at least they checked for me...he signed John Mayer I believe later in life so would be harder to identify him if he signed that way

Maybe that is indeed Johnny Bates' signature but it is a pretty common name and nothing to indicate it is THE Johnny Bates other than that it is in a collection of more common names. The rest of that collection is not worth what the final price was so maybe you missed out, or maybe you dodged a bullet by not winning it. Who knows.

Definitely fair. The Bates in my exemplar file is meaningfully different from the Bates in this lot, which is why I stopped bidding when I did. If it was a clear match I might have gone higher.

That's an awful lot of money with that many relatively common signatures.

To be fair, Jimmy Crandall, Josh Devore, Jean Dubuc, and especially Clyde Engle and Ed Konetchy, are not that easy to find.

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FYI - the recent influx of Jean Dubuc autographs on eBay is not the norm.

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