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[glchen]

I won the set of five 1926-29 Baseball/Boxers 4 on 1 Exhibits from the Lipset auction that just ended: Link. So obviously, the set was not impossible as somebody had "completed" it. Saying that however, I think these are different variations as two of these cards have sideways movie scenes in them, which I'm not sure have been seen before. When I receive the cards, I'll post bigger scans including scans of the fifth card not shown by Lipset.

[Exhibitman]

Nice pick-up Gary. The last two baseball players [Smith and Kelly] were ones that I knew were out there because I have cuts of both. It should complete the known ballplayers because the same art was issued in ten-card strips, at least for the boxing:



And there are known baseball strips too:



The only way to tell them apart accurately is to hold them in hand and compare them--the strips are thinner and slicker than the Exhibits.

As for the interplay of movie and sports, there are cards known with baseball and boxing, baseball and movies, boxing and movies, and movies only.




I don't think it is possible to exhaustively catalog every combo. I have scans of several different movie-only cards that I will have to dig out and post.

[glchen]

Finally got around to getting the scans for these cards.

[glchen]

And the back scans

[Theoldprofessor]

While it's true that most Salutations are easy to find (though not quite as easy if you care about unmarked backs), there are a few that are quite difficult.

Of course, you'd never guess what they are by looking at SMR prices. Excluding Williams, DiMaggio and the like, whose cards are always costly because they're legendary HOFers, SMR somehow would have us believe that Jimmie Foxx is a difficult card, as is Glenn Russell. Not so -- they're even easy to find on eBay. But I've seen two Rizzos in years of looking, and the same number of Hartnetts and Averills. SMR has been wrong about all of these cards for years.

But the set is still entertaining to chase, and vey rewarding to complete.

[Exhibitman]

SMR is wrong about a lot of stuff.

Rizzo was definitely the toughest card in the set. I got plain lucky on that one--a non-collector posted a group of saluations on ebay and I made an offer for an immediate purchase that the seller took.

Hugh Mulcahy was a toughie too. He was actually the last card in the set for me.

Hartnett was pretty tough too.

Lombardi's waist-up portrait is tough.

And let's not forget Gehrig, which is both tough and desirable.

[JasonD08]

I am missing only Gehrig. How tough is he in EX or better? I have looked for several years and found none. I just finished a master 1947 set with color variations that I know about. Is there any experts on the 1947s who would have a master list with all color variations?

Jason