1916 Successful Farming

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

I believe that there is an Evers SF salesman’s sample in the current REA.

You are correct Jay, although I'm not sure it is completely accurate for REA to call it a salesman's sample. I am unaware of these actually going out with any salesmen (newspaper stands/hawkers?), instead being offered through the magazine only. Maybe REA has found additional info on the topic, and they are right to call it promotional, so I'm not too bothered by the semantics. It is still a very attractive card and pretty darn scarce.

[Rhotchkiss]

Like the Evers, My (Leon’s old) Joe Jackson has no number, and SGC lists 6 players/cards without a number: Jackson, Evers, Lajoie, Baker, Zimmerman, Alexander. Each of these show 2 graded, with Alexander having 3. Of the other players listed in the SGC pop report that have card numbers, no more than one of each has been graded. PSA has graded 6 total Successful Farming, all with numbers, and none that are on SGC pop report. Thus, it appears no numbers (2 of each) were more common than numbers (one of each), of course all of them being rare as hell.

As an aside, the Evers is awesome. Talk about a special, good looking, type-card