Taken from a member's posting at the Non Sports Chat Board Dec. 16, 2007 |
The scenes are decent to compliment the titles. They suffer a bit due to their somewhat generic nature despite the good chromolithography. The KEYS to the set (4 baseball and some more minor like boxing, cycling, etc.)are quite expensive (especially the BB) and have more than quadrupled in a few short years. It seems that the sports card collector begins to chase these types of issues as their regular collecting pool dwindles. Next they go for the whole set - of course the type collector and specialized set collector chases them as well making for a feeding frenzy at times.... Interestingly they are a relatively small size for the complicated scene rendered - the clarity of thought behind the depictions give a good sense of the sport - and the combining of a woman's bust shot in the attire in which she might attend the sport - along with an action scene - quite novel for the time and something that would be used again in issues like the 1933 sport kings. Kimball's also used a dual image at around the same time in their N184 set. |