Lot # 481: 1910-Era Fred Tenney Type-Card Collection (11) Including E90-1, T206, T202, and M116

Presented is a collection of eleven 1910-era baseball cards (mostly caramel and tobacco), all depicting Fred Tenney. The Ivy-League educated Tenney was a star of his day, cranking out more than 2,200 hits during a seventeen-year career with the New York Giants and the National League Boston franchise. Tenney is considered one of the top defensive first basemen of the Deadball Era and is credited with originating the 3-6-3 double play and popularizing the defensive positioning (deep and well off first base) that is common to this day. This collection consists of the following: 1) 1906 WG2 Fan Craze N.L. (1 card): Tenney (Gd). 2) 1908 E91-A American Caramel (1 card): Tenney (Fr). 3) 1909 E91-B American Caramel (1 card): Tenney (Pr). 4) 1909-1911 E90-1 American Caramel (1 card): Tenney (Fr). 5) 1909-1911 T206 White Border (2 cards): Two Tenney (tiny ink mark on front, otherwise Vg, Sweet Caporal and light ink marks on reverse, otherwise Vg, Piedmont). 6) 1910 E103 Williams Caramel (1 card): Tenney (Pr). 7) 1910-1911 M116 Sporting Life (2 cards): Tenney/blue background (Pr) and Tenney/pastel background (slight trim, otherwise Pr). 8) 1912 T202 Hassan Triple Folder (2 cards): Lobert Gets Tenney - Lobert/Dooin (Fr) and Tenney Lands Safely - Latham/Raymond (Pr). Total: 11 cards.