New 1931 Set Discovered

[seanofjapan]

I made an exciting find earlier this week. I picked up this Japanese menko card of Frankie Frisch from an antique dealer in Yamagata prefecture. It features him during the 1931 MLB all star tour of Japan, which also featured Lou Gehrig, Mickey Cochrane, Lefty Grove, Rabbit Maranville and a few other stars.

Two Japanese sets of bromides from that tour have previously been identified, but no menko ones have until now (just FYI menko are a Japanese card game and manyJapanese cards prior to the 1970s were menko). As far as I can tell this is the only known copy of any card from this set still in existence, though its possible there are more out there waiting to be found, maybe even a Gehrig.

I did a bit more of a write up about my find here:
https://baseballcardsinjapan.blogspo...discovery.html