1921 Schapira Big Show - Show and Tell

[Leon]

Neat and esoteric cards. Here are some I used to own...I have seen some without creases. I heard they were folded to fit in the boxes but am not sure of that..

[BeanTown]

Well, all I can say is that I like them and never owned one 😒

My only story is that I tried really hard with making many late night bids and fell short being the under bidder on the Cobb in the recent HA auction. It was fun watching and knowing I was minutes away from being the owner of the card to only have my hopes dashed with a higher bid on multiple occassions.

Oh well... It was fun bidding.. 😉

[ValKehl]

Daniel, I currently own only the 3 cards pictured below. I once owned a few more of these Schapiras plus a few candy boxes, but I traded them to Leon some years ago. I don't know anything more about this set than has already been mentioned. SGC has graded a total of 20 of these cards, so they are quite scarce - I can't check the PSA pop report as PSA's web site is on the fritz right now.

All of the cards I own/owned have the horizontal crease, but, like Leon, I have seen a couple that had never been folded. If my Alzheimer's-like memory is correct, when I had the boxes, I did try to see if an unfolded card would fit into a candy box - if memory serves me correctly (and it often doesn't), it did not fit flat against a side of the box, but did fit very tightly in a diagonal fashion, which would make it more difficult to insert the candy. Leon, did you ever try to fit a Schapira card into a candy box?

I note that your WaJo card and my two WaJos are each miscut on the left side - I wonder if all the WaJo cards are like this. Speaking of WaJo cards, I submitted my WaJo card with the blemish near the lower left corner to SGC, but they wouldn't grade it (see their response below), which surprised me - I plan to take all three of my Schapiras to the upcoming Philly Show and try to convince SGC in person that they are all authentic.

Val

[Brian Van Horn]

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[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

... I note that your WaJo card and my two WaJos are each miscut on the left side - I wonder if all the WaJo cards are like this. Speaking of WaJo cards, I submitted my WaJo card with the blemish near the lower left corner to SGC, but they wouldn't grade it (see their response below), which surprised me - I plan to take all three of my Schapiras to the upcoming Philly Show and try to convince SGC in person that they are all authentic.

Val

I did take my 3 Schapira cards to the Philly Show at the beginning of this month and showed them to SGC. This convinced them that the one card I wanted graded, the WaJo with the surface blemish in the lower left corner, is authentic, and it now resides in a SGC 10 holder. FYI, this card will appear in the January LOTG Auction.
Val