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Posted By: warshawlaw

I follow the set because it contains mostly boxers. T229 Kopec are among the rarest of the 20th century tobacco cards (Yeah, Leon, I know; put your Baker away ). I've seen one Davidson sell before, on ebay around three years ago, from a NoCal collector who was liquidating his collection. However, that card was a Pet Cigarettes (Kopec and Pet share the same fronts; Pet cards are rare too, but not as rare as Kopec). Around 5 Kopecs have come to market since I started following the set several years ago, none of them Davidson. The prices they bring vary widely depending on the subject and the manner in which they are marketed. The boxers are the most valuable. I'd have it slabbed and placed with a major auctioneer, if I owned it.

Could you post front and back scans for the folks out here?

There actually was a fellow named Harley Davidson. Believe it or not, there is a roller skating museum and I found it online. It had the following tidbits about Harley Davidson: Apparently, he was the leader of a faction of the Professional Speed Roller Skating association and had a pissing match with another faction of skaters in the January to February 1911 meet, causing Davidson to quit.

Are you sure about that 1920 date? It would blow out the concepts of issue dates on the set.