Lot # 1000: 1937 Wheaties Series 9 Complete Set (16)

In the 1930s, Wheaties issued package-design baseball cards on the backs of its cereal boxes, which were intended to be hand cut from the boxes. These were difficult to collect back in the 1930s (imagine getting just one card per box of cereal), and are not a lot easier to collect today! Offered is a complete sixteen-card set of Wheaties Series 9, issued in 1937. Seven Hall of Famers highlight this set, including Joe DiMaggio, Lefty Grove, and Bob Feller. All of the grades that follow are without respect to the neatness of the cut as the cards were intended to be cut by hand and can vary greatly. The condition of the set is Ex, Vg-Ex, two Vg, three Gd, and nine Pr to Fr. Includes three duplicates (Bridges [hand-cut out around inner circle], Martin [Pr-Fr], and Travis [Vg-Ex]). Keys: Cuyler (Fr), DiMaggio (Gd+), Feller (Gd due to partial tear of lower-right corner), Grove (Fr due mostly to small tear of top edge), Herman (Pr-Fr), Hubbell (Ex), and Vaughan (ink marks on reverse, otherwise Fr-Gd). Wheaties Cereal box panels are among the most beautiful, interesting, and substantial cards of the era and also represent one of the best values of all cards from the 1930s. This is an attractive mixed-grade set of these unusual, scarce, and underrated Wheaties cards. Total: 19 cards (set of 16 plus three duplicates).