Mystery Lajoie Card in Legendary Auction

[Hankphenom]

Do you know if any are complete, with all 200 cards? Of course, Mendelsohn's offered displays could have been created in sections.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Do you know if any are complete, with all 200 cards? Of course, Mendelsohn's offered displays could have been created in sections.

The 3-5 I have seen are complete at 200 cards.

[fkw]

I think there is at least 2 of the Lajoies floating around...
Here is an image I have of the Lajoie, I dont think its the same card as in the SGC-40 slab, there are some similar wear, but on this card there is even more wear on the edges and some other slight differences in print and dirt. sorry about the bad scan Ive had this scan for years lifted from some place I dont remember.

[Matthew H]

Hank, here is a link to a sheet with what might be an original frame:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ght=m101+sheet

[glchen]

Here are a couple of other sheets with different advertisers for M101-4.

Link 1

Link 2

[Hankphenom]

It looks to me that this program by Mendelsohn was a real bust. If there's only a handful of the uncut sheets known, and no duplicates by back, it would seem that not a single advertiser took them up on their offer of 250 uncut sheets for $1.05 each. All of the three uncut sheets posted here are the framed versions, one of which was provided gratis to each advertiser, according to my solicitation mailer, and I presume there are cards known with backs of each of these advertisers for whom framed uncut sheets have surfaced. And if there are only 21 known backs, it can be assumed that this represents the total number of companies that signed up for the program at all. The minimum order for cards was 500 sets, and I'm guessing that most of the orders were for that amount. Are there some backs (Sporting News, for example) that are known to exist in significantly greater quantities than others, indicating a larger order? And the scarcity of complete sets might be explained by the stinginess of the Successful Farming offer, which required advance payment of a SEVEN YEAR subscription to get the complete set of 200 cards. One last question: before the surfacing of my mailer, was it presumed that the cards were produced by the individual advertisers themselves rather than, as it now appears, by the Mendelsohn Company?

[glchen]

I am far, far from an expert, but I thought that other than Sporting News, the other advertisers purchased blank backed versions of the M101-4/5, and stamped their advertising on the back of the cards themselves.