Harrington's/Yuengling's, etc. Earl Smith

[Bob Lemke]

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I've exchanged a few e-mails with Pete Calderon at Heritage concerning the 1928 Harrington's Earl Smith #48 card they have in their Oct. 1 auction. The SGC-graded Good card is already up to $11,000.

Pete's auction lot description says there are only two graded by SGC and none by PSA. He theorizes the green Smith cards were used as an exchange if/when a kid turned in the complete 60-card set for a gallon of ice cream. But that would mean that regular black-and-white cards would have been issued.

My questions . . .

Do b/w Earl Smith cards exist for Harrington's?

Are there any recorded #48 Smith survivors (b/w or green) among the parallel sets from Yuengling, Tharp or Sweetman?

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

[rhettyeakley]

Bob, I saw that card in the current auction and have to say that I am fairly shocked that it has recieved any bids. Are we 100% sure this Earl Smith is a shortprinted card card like some of the other 1920's SP's like the Maple Crispette Stengel or Cleghorn (hockey), the Holland Peckinpaugh, the V145-1 Corbeau (hockey), etc.? Are there really that many 1920's Ice Cream card collectors out there to justify the price? It is definitely an interesting piece, but the price seems a bit odd.

-Rhett

[V117collector]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

Bob, I saw that card in the current auction and have to say that I am fairly shocked that it has recieved any bids. Are we 100% sure this Earl Smith is a shortprinted card card like some of the other 1920's SP's like the Maple Crispette Stengel or Cleghorn (hockey), the Holland Peckinpaugh, the V145-1 Corbeau (hockey), etc.? Are there really that many 1920's Ice Cream card collectors out there to justify the price? It is definitely an interesting piece, but the price seems a bit odd.

-Rhett

Agreed, more research is needed before making any type of commitment! I'd also like to know how the seller convinted the auction house regarding card value or opening bid??

[V117collector]

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ght=Earl+Smith

[Matt]

Originally Posted by V117collector

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ght=Earl+Smith

Brad - good find; I thought this discussion had come up previously. My thoughts haven't changed since then:

"about 75% of the cards in the issue have a composite population of 3 or less."

I don't see any way the pop reports indicate that it was a chase card.

[Leon]

If I were the consignor I would be clicking my heels right about now...and maybe buy a lotto ticket and airplane ticket to Vegas.....And to think the E121- Shotwell Ruth card only brought somewhere around 8k after juice.....Where's my can of spray paint?

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Bob Lemke

Pete's auction lot description says there are only two graded by SGC and none by PSA.

The SGC pop reports also show 11 Harrington's cards with only 1 example graded...