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fkwHi, I spent the last couple night looking over the letters and helped Carrie with the scans a bit and gave her a little of an idea of how much a Maranville signature goes for.
Its very interesting stuff. From what I have found out Maranville was the Manager of the Springfield team in 1941. After reading the letters it seemed he was having some financial difficulties and was needing a loan.
As most of you know Im more of an expert with PreWar cards, and I know many of you know way more about these types of items than I do, so I pointed her to this site.
I had some questions myself to add...
1. If she was going to sell, should she break up the lot individually or sell the related letters/contract as one lot?
2. Is this something that may be good for Mastro's/REA etc. or better on eBay or a smaller auction house?
3. What type of estimate would you put on an individual letter or the pink contract? What about the whole lot?
4. Who is pictured with Ruth and Gehrig?