1920's stamps/transfers - any info ?

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Posted By: martindl

Found this sheet of transfers with boxers and ball players. Given who the players are I'd put it in the mid 20's, as some of them were done by the late 20's and one of the boxers Battling Siki was dead by 1926. Images and names are inverted and there are 12 sheets, all the same.
Ball players are Ray Schalk, George Burns, Red Faber, Zack Wheat, Dave Bancroft, Everett Scott, Tris Speaker, Grover Alexander, Casey Stengel, Arthur Nehf, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Bob Shawkey and then a repeat of Faber and Wheat. Has 'Made in Germany' on each transfer.

Anyone seen this or these before?

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Posted By: Todd

those would be 1923 German Baseball transfers. The Catalog from 2002 shows the same Stengel as is depicted in your scan, and notes that Wheat and Faber were double printed. That resource also values a complete baseball set of 13 at $1100.00, and a complete sheet of 25 at $500.00, both in Nm condition.

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Posted By: martindl

Thanks. I didn't even look in the Std Catalog, but you're right, there they are.
There must have been a find after 2002 or lack of interest because the current catalog has the baseball set at $750 and the complete sheet at $350. Why a sheet of all 25 would be half the value of the ball players alone is beyond me, but i guess thats why i'm not in the price guide business.

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Posted By: warshawlaw