Lot # 92: 1907 PC765 A. C. Dietsche Detroit Tigers Postcard Partial Set (11/16) Including Hughie Jennings and Sam Crawford

Rarely offered partial set of eleven (out of sixteen) 1907 A. C. Dietsche Detroit Tigers Postcards (Series 1). Missing the two Ty Cobb cards (batting and exceedingly rare fielding pose), Killian, O'Leary, and Schmidt for completion. Cobb is the only player with two poses in the Dietsche set, and for some reason the Cobb fielding pose is far rarer than the Cobb batting pose, to such an extraordinary degree that we assume the Cobb fielding pose was replaced with the batting pose early in the print run. Due to the extreme rarity of the Cobb fielding pose, most collectors consider a 1907 Dietsche Detroit Tigers postcard set complete at fifteen. Produced by the Dietsche Postcard Company of Detroit, this set was issued to commemorate the Tigers' participation in the 1907 World Series against the Chicago Cubs (Chicago swept in four games). The condition is two Ex, seven Vg-Ex to Vg-Ex+, Vg, and Gd. This partial set consists of the following: Coughlin, Crawford (Gd, HOF), Donovan, Downs, Jennings (Vg-Ex, HOF), Jones, Mullin, Payne, Rossman, Schaefer, and Siever. The Dietsche Detroit Tigers postcard set is one of the most distinctive sets of the era, and the offered collection would serve as an outstanding foundation for the assembly of a complete set. Total: 11 cards.