1927-28 Mallorquina complete set Willie Bill Foster & Martin DiHigo Rookies WOW For Sale


1927-28 Mallorquina complete set Willie Bill Foster & Martin DiHigo Rookies WOW
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1927-28 Mallorquina complete set Willie Bill Foster & Martin DiHigo Rookies WOW:
$89999.00


1927-28 Mallorquina complete set Willie Bill Foster & Martin DiHigo Rookies WOW!
This complete uncut sheet is a 1/1 in the collecting world to my knowledge. It depicts the impossibly rare and sought after ROOKIE CARD OF MARTIN DIHIGO!
It also includes the only known card of WILLIE FOSTER! Also has one of the rarest POP LLOYD CARDS (on par with the 1910 Punch card in terms of rarity).
SUPER BONUS... it has both Oliver Marcelle and George Scales and the only known card of Larry Brown. It is my opinion that Mareclle will be one of the first negro leaguers admitted into the Hall of Fame when they open it again to negro leaguers in 2020.... and this is his rarest card as well.
Here is a description from the sale that sold this piece in 2006... when it sold for more than $40,000! It is now encapsulated in a BGS holder for safekeeping (the only TPG with holders sol large)... Graded 1.5 - but all the key cards are in great shape... fantastic image quality

Featured in this lot is arguably the most important Cuban baseball card-related piece in existence. An uncut sheet from the ultra-scarce 1927-28 Mallorquina issue that includes the entire known set of 100 cards!

The fact that an uncut Cuban baseball card sheet from the 1920s has survived is remarkable by itself, but what makes this piece so amazing are the cards on the sheet. Of the 100 cards, only 17 of them are from the professional Cuban baseball league. The other 83 are all amateur players (amateur baseball has always been very popular in Cuba.)

Among the 17 cards of professional players are two of the most desirable Cuban baseball cards that are known: the only known card of HOFer Willie Foster and the earliest known card of HOFer Martin Dihigo!

Only a handful of examples of individual cards from this issue have ever surfaced. There is one example of the Dihigo card. There are no examples of the Willie Foster card.

In addition to HOFers Dihigo and Foster, the sheet also features HOFer Pop Lloyd as well as Negro League greats Oliver Marcelle, Larry Brown (his only card) and George Scales. Also included are Cubans Brujo Rosell (his only card) and Adolfo Luque.

The sheet somehow survived the rigors of Cuban weather until around 1990 when it found itself traveling to Puerto Rico. It remained trapped in Puerto Rico until a few years ago when it was heroically rescued and given a new home in Colorado. Now, with this sale, its journey continues.

Now it can move on from South Carolina... Serious inquiries only, please
FEDEX overnight delivery($150) or Pickup. Sorry, no international on this one.
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