Fall 2019 - Item detail
1894 N302 Mayo's Cut Plug Football SGC-Graded Collection (21) Including Hinkey and Poe - Newly Discovered!
- Sold For:
- $6,900
- Year:
- 1894
- Auction:
- 2019 Fall
- Lot #:
- 2339
- Category:
- Football Cards or Memorabilia
Presented is an outstanding newly discovered collection of twenty-one different of the thirty-five cards in the Mayo's Cut Plug Football set, one of rarest and most important of all football-card sets and the only nineteenth-century card issue devoted exclusively to football. N302 Mayo's Cut Plug is considered by many to be one of rarest of all nineteenth-century tobacco-card issues. The set features Ivy League football players of the day. Similar in design to their N300 Mayo's Cut Plug baseball counterparts, the N302 football cards are very susceptible to edge wear due to their easily-chipped black borders. These cards originate from a new-to-the-hobby collection of nineteenth-century cards that had been carefully saved in the pages of a scrapbook for over a century. All the cards within this lot were carefully removed from the scrapbook by a professional conservator using deionized water. They were submitted to SGC for grading with this information and SGC graded the cards as outlined in the composite below.
SGC Grading Composite: VG 3 (5 cards): Barnett/Princeton, Emmons/Harvard, Lea/Princeton, Trenchard/Princeton and Waters/Harvard. GOOD+ 2.5 (10 cards): Acton/Harvard, Armstrong/Yale, Brown/Princeton, Butterworth/Yale, Crowdis/Princeton, Grey/Harvard, Hinkey/Yale, Mackie/Harvard, Stillman/Yale and Wheeler/Princeton. GOOD 2 (3 cards): Burt/Princeton, Poe/Princeton and Wrightington/Harvard. FAIR 1.5 (2 cards): Gonterman/Harvard and Taylor/Princeton. Authentic (1 card): Adee/Yale. N302 Mayo's Cut Plug Football usually surface just a few or even one card at a time. While the condition of the cards in this lot is far from Mint, this collection does represent a very interesting, relatively affordable (compared to higher grade examples), and rare opportunity to acquire slightly more than half of a complete set of this extremely desirable nineteenth-century football issue. The equivalent SMR value for the assigned grades (excluding the one Authentic) is $12,385. Total: 21 cards. Reserve $2,500. Estimate $5,000/$10,000+.
SGC Grading Composite: VG 3 (5 cards): Barnett/Princeton, Emmons/Harvard, Lea/Princeton, Trenchard/Princeton and Waters/Harvard. GOOD+ 2.5 (10 cards): Acton/Harvard, Armstrong/Yale, Brown/Princeton, Butterworth/Yale, Crowdis/Princeton, Grey/Harvard, Hinkey/Yale, Mackie/Harvard, Stillman/Yale and Wheeler/Princeton. GOOD 2 (3 cards): Burt/Princeton, Poe/Princeton and Wrightington/Harvard. FAIR 1.5 (2 cards): Gonterman/Harvard and Taylor/Princeton. Authentic (1 card): Adee/Yale. N302 Mayo's Cut Plug Football usually surface just a few or even one card at a time. While the condition of the cards in this lot is far from Mint, this collection does represent a very interesting, relatively affordable (compared to higher grade examples), and rare opportunity to acquire slightly more than half of a complete set of this extremely desirable nineteenth-century football issue. The equivalent SMR value for the assigned grades (excluding the one Authentic) is $12,385. Total: 21 cards. Reserve $2,500. Estimate $5,000/$10,000+.