COBB MATHEWSON T202 Baseball Cigarette Newspaper 1912 Start Price USD 15,000.00 Current Price USD 15,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 24, 2008 End Time Friday, October 24, 2008 Location Memphis, Tennessee See more about 'COBB MATHEWSON T202 Baseball Cigarette Newspaper 1912' Description jimspages1 Store This is the Original page of The North American newspaper of Philadelphia dated May 19, 1912. Buyer will also receive 500 posters of this page.                                                                         I purchased a bound volume of this newspaper for the stories about the TITANIC sinking (April 15, 1912) and this page was in that volume. There are only 2 known pages of this newspaper with this ad. This original page was on display at the MCI NATIONAL SPORTS GALLERY in Washington, DC and seen by 10's of thousands. Posters were made from this page and some sold there. A story about this page appeared in the Sports Collectors Digest of June 18, 1999 by Frank Ceresi now with Sotheby's...................... This is a HASSAN Cigarette ad for the T202 baseball card. This baseball card was probably never produced as none have ever been found. If one did exist it would surely be the most expensive baseball card worth many millions of dollars and be "The Mother of All Baseball Cards."  It is a mystery why none exist. This ad indicates that there were 150 of the cards but only around 140 have been located. This would be a good case for the History Detectives on PBS. The original ad is the most expensive newspaper advertising ad. There were a few advertising display panels of this same card produced and one sold for $98,600.00 in 2006.                                                                                                                                                                                              THIS IS PART OF AN ARTICLE ABOUT THAT DISPLAY: "Among the most tantalizing of all in-store advertising displays known to the vintage card collecting hobby have been several very obscure panels that were originally used to promote the 1912 T202 Hassan "Triple Folders" card set (and of course, the cigarettes with which they were distributed). Until now, however, only three such advertising end panels have been known to exist. The known panels resemble the player images found on each end of the Triple Folder cards. Until now, there have been no known examples of the corresponding advertising pieces patterned after the black-and-white action poses found on the center panel of the T202 cards. Collectors have long feared that any center panels for the ad displays, if they ever existed, had been discarded into the trash piles of yesteryear. All of those fears changed to joy, however, with the recent discovery of a complete three-panel display. As shown, the end panels for the display feature Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson. Both players are featured as end panels in the regular T202 set, and they are the only two players featured on end panels in the very small sampling of known T202 display posters. The Hassan display is the only in-store advertising piece known to exist that was produced to promote a baseball card set during the golden years of tobacco card inserts." A baseball pin 1 1/16 by 1 inch picturing Ty Cobb sold in May of this year for $23,900. at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Click Here. Double your traffic. Try Vendio Gallery Risk FREE! Place a Bid!