1921 Koester Bread Complete Set w/ Babe Ruth in Album Discovered - REA
 

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...bum-discovery/

“Hidden inside a dusty store ledger, a century-old collection of baseball cards issued by Koester Bread in 1921 has been fermenting for over 100 years.

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What he saw stopped him in his tracks: a complete 1921 Koester Bread baseball card album.

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The album the consignor found likely served as a store display premium, given to grocers who sold Koester Bread during the 1921 season, possibly one of only a handful ever distributed.

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This newly discovered complete set in its original album will be a featured item in REA’s Fall Catalog Auction, opening on November 21 and running through December 7.”

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Fantastic discoveries of pre-War cards don't happen nearly as often as they did 25-50 years ago, but they still happen!!

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Wow. We finally get to find out what constitutes a complete set of Koester's Bread cards. Previously myself, and I believe other even much more advanced collectors, believed the Koester Bread set only consisted of players for the Yankees and Giants.

Hopefully each page of this lot should be inspected by our resident expert on Koester Bread and related E121 cards, namely Rhett. The position designations of many of the cards in this album, plus the thickness and paper composition of the cards, should be noted, so that Koester Bread cards can finally be identified, and thus currently classified W575-1 blank back cards can be potentially identified as instead being part of the Koester Bread set. And ideally REA shows each page of the album in their auction catalog.


And the consigner...a great find, but it brings up that ultimate moral dilemma within the hobby. The buyer purchased this album for probably something under $200, as it states in the article that he thought it might be worth around $200. Hopefully the consigner sends at least a little of the enormous windfall to be received from its auction sale to the person/family he purchased this from.

Brian

Absolutely beautiful cards! Would you try to soak them? There is no way I ever could. And of course, the album has never been seen before, so it's valuable in it's own right.

VERY cool find!!!! Cards are in beautiful condition. Must be over 100 cards according to the description, will be neat to see how many total are in the set.

Will REA sell the cards still attached to the album? Or will they be soaked, graded, and sold individually? Cards appear hand-cut, guessing most will get an Authentic grade?

Blastoff!

Set of cards is not complete as I have Elmer Miller who is not pictured here and is in the set. Cool cards though.

I don’t think all of the album pages are pictured in the article.

Article says set consists of 52 cards divided equally between the two teams .
Article only shows 19 different cards, but does picture an Elmer Miller.

I did make an assumption that because supposedly 15 or so of the album pages had cards, and the complete pages shown have 8 cards, that 120 cards are in the album. Perhaps I jumped the gun about cards of players on other teams are involved, especially since only Yankee and Giants examples are shown in the article. Maybe there are duplicates?

Brian

Here is another Koester Bakery set in an album that Heritage sold 9 years ago.

https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-c...ription-071515

There ya go, Kevin. Pissing in the punch bowl again. ��

Either way pretty cool

hopefully the REA listing will show all the cards...
 

lol