T222 1914 Fatima Wally Schang, SGC 2 G (Good), Philadelphia A's, 4-time WS Champ

Description: This is a 1914 Fatima tobacco card of catcher Wally Schang, pictured when he was playing with the Philadelphia Athletics. This card was sent to SCG and was authenticated and given a Cert Grade of Good 2 and Cert Code of 9787258. It has creases but has retained its glossy surface and contrast. Wally Schang (1889-1965) was a catcher for the Philadephia Athletics (1913-1917), Boston Red Sox (1918-1920), New York Yankees (1921-1925), St. Louis Browns (1926-1929), Philadelphia Athletics (1930), and the Detroit Tigers (1931). He was a four-time World Series Champion, 1913, 1918, 1923, 1930. He was considered one of the best major league catchers, a switch-hitter who hit better than .300 six times in his career. In 1916 he became the first player to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in the same game. Jefferson Burdick's designation for this 1914 Fatima set of cards is T222. They were issued by Liggett & Myers Tobacco in packages of Fatima Turkish Blend Cigarettes. They are glossy sepia-tone photos on thin paper stock and prone to creasing. They are larger than most tobacco cards and measure 2 &1/2" x 4 & 1/2". There were several short prints in this series. Some collectors and guides have written that the small numbers printed in the lower left-hand corner of the cards indicate rarity; the baseball card numbers range from 2-9 and then skip 10 and 11 (see the next paragraph), then 12-15. It is an ascending order of rarity, the bigger the number, the rarer. This card has a rarity number of "4" in the lower-left-hand corner. The Fatima advertisement on the reverse of the cards indicate that there were 100 cards in the set; fifty-two were baseball players, four more were athletes from other sports, "American Athletic Champions", which had the number "10" in the lower left-hand corner, Sprinter Baker for example, and seven "Photoplay" actors and actresses. That results in 63 cards, but there is always the likelihood that more will be discovered. The non-sports number in the rarity scale is 11; it is seen in the lower-left hand corner of a couple of the Photoplay (actors and actresses) cards in this set, including the cards of actor Crane Wilbur and actress Pearl Sindelar. This card will be authenticated again through the eBay Authenticity Guarantee service.From eBay:"eBay Authenticity Guarantee is a service designed to help you shop with confidence. Professional authenticators with extensive industry knowledge put eligible items through a rigorous multi-step verification process, checking each item’s condition against the listing to ensure it’s exactly as described and authentic. Through the Authenticity Guarantee service, eBay covers the cost of authentication and secure shipping from the authentication facility to the buyer for eligible items." I will send this to the Authentication service and they in turn will ship it to the buyer. Domestic USPS Priority Mail with tracking and insurance is included. International shipping is through eBay's International Shipping service. In this service the seller ships the purchased item to eBay's domestic shipping hub, and then eBay collects the appropriate shipping fees and handles all of the international details/requirements, including the Customs paperwork. Thank you for looking!

Price: 295 USD

Location: Metro Detroit

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