Mystery Lajoie Card in Legendary Auction

[Hankphenom]

I wonder if the rarity of the different backs might be related to the price points laid out on the flyer:
500 sets-$2.00 each
1,250 sets--$1.50 each
2,500 sets--$1.25 each
5,000 sets--95c each

And are there any uncut sheets known? There should be if they followed through with this offer:
"So that collectors will know just what pictures and the number of pictures comprising the complete series we will furnish you in quantities according to your purchases one complete show card on which will be mounted in one display the entire set of 200 photographs."

Lastly, at the bottom of the flyer there is this:
"Special note--These two hundred pictures on one 3-ply card framed (without glass) in mahogany stained oak frame bearing your imprint, wired, ready for hanging. Picture heavily glazed. In lots of 250...$1.05 each In lots of 500...90c each."

Are they really, as it seems, offering to ship you 250 uncut and framed complete sheets for a buck each? Are any of these known to exist? If they had carried through with this, some of them would surely have survived.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

I wonder if the rarity of the different backs might be related to the price points laid out on the flyer:
500 sets-$2.00 each
1,250 sets--$1.50 each
2,500 sets--$1.25 each
5,000 sets--95c each

And are there any uncut sheets known? There should be if they followed through with this offer:
"So that collectors will know just what pictures and the number of pictures comprising the complete series we will furnish you in quantities according to your purchases one complete show card on which will be mounted in one display the entire set of 200 photographs."

Lastly, at the bottom of the flyer there is this:
"Special note--These two hundred pictures on one 3-ply card framed (without glass) in mahogany stained oak frame bearing your imprint, wired, ready for hanging. Picture heavily glazed. In lots of 250...$1.05 each In lots of 500...90c each."

Are they really, as it seems, offering to ship you 250 uncut and framed complete sheets for a buck each? Are any of these known to exist? If they had carried through with this, some of them would surely have survived.

There are several uncut sheets known. One of them, I am aware of, is from the first series with Thorpe on it.

[Hankphenom]

Do you know if any are complete, with all 200 cards? Of course, Mendelsohn's offered displays could have been created in sections.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Do you know if any are complete, with all 200 cards? Of course, Mendelsohn's offered displays could have been created in sections.

The 3-5 I have seen are complete at 200 cards.

[fkw]

I think there is at least 2 of the Lajoies floating around...
Here is an image I have of the Lajoie, I dont think its the same card as in the SGC-40 slab, there are some similar wear, but on this card there is even more wear on the edges and some other slight differences in print and dirt. sorry about the bad scan Ive had this scan for years lifted from some place I dont remember.

[Matthew H]

Hank, here is a link to a sheet with what might be an original frame:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ght=m101+sheet

[glchen]

Here are a couple of other sheets with different advertisers for M101-4.

Link 1

Link 2