$2.8M Baseball Card Honus Wagner T206 and Rare Vintage Sports Card Set Boxing Golf Billiards Football Major Drapking Cigarette Cards

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This is a very rare sports card set, so rare that it’s taken me seven years to get it. This set forms a card game, Sporting Snap. If you don’t know how to play, I was lucky enough to get the original instruction leaflet which, according to the backs of the cards, was “obtainable from all tobacconists”. It is now very scarce in its own right.

The most sought after cards in this set are the baseball cards. You won’t find any Honus Wagner cards amongst these ones but they are still very difficult to get hold of in this great condition.As many of you know, a Honus Wagner T206 baseball card was the first card to fetch more than $1M at auction in the year 2000 and would more than double this in 2007, when it reached $2.8M. As well as featuring several baseball cards, this card set also covers many other sports, such as association football, rugby, tennis, boxing, golf, water-polo, billiards and racing etc.

Major Drapkin, The Game of Sporting Snap, 1928 (40 cards)

Includes:Soccer (Association Football), Rugger (Rugby), Cricket, Tennis, Boxing, Baseball, Golf, Water-Polo, Billiards, Horse Racing

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WW1 Cavalry Regimental Uniforms Horses Lancers Artillery Cossacks Russian Hussars John Player & Son Cigarette Cards

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The huge revolution in firepower was not matched by similar advances in mobility. That’s why horses were still widely used in WW1. The first standard issue military tanks did not join the war effort till quite late, and even those were very experimental and caused almost as much damage to the exhaust fume poisoned operatives as they did to the enemy.

John Player and Sons issued a number of beautifully illustrated military card sets leading up to and towards the beginning of WW1. This particular set is devoted to cavalry regiments and, judging by the unusual large size of the cards, would have been issued in the extra big packets. The bumper packets were not as popular as the regular packets, explaining why these cards are quite scarce. As with the early movie studios, the card issuers were reluctant to reveal the names of their artists. They feared that their staff would ask for more money if they became celebrities in their own right. However, attitudes changed as the pressures of the free market took effect.

John Player and Son, Regimental Uniforms, 1914 (10 extra large cards)

Includes:Belgian Army - 4th Regiment of Lancers, French Army - Artillery, Belgian Army - 2nd Chasseurs a Cheval, French Army - Spahi, French Army - Chasseurs a Cheval, Indian Army - 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry - Late 1st Madras Lancers, 13th Duke of Connaught's Lancers Watson's Horse - Late 13th Duke of Connaught's Bengal Lancers, Indian Army - Imperial Cadet Corps, Russian Army - Officer of Hussars, Russian Army - Trumpeter - Cossack of the Guard

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