1894 Mayo Tobacco Works
You are looking at Harvard’s John Dunlop football card, issued by the Mayo Tobacco Works of Richmond Virginia in 1894. It’s considered the rarest football set ever distributed as well as the only 19th century set solely dedicated to football. The card itself is considered “Anonymous” due to Dunlop’s name being left off it. It was found in Michigan by a family cleaning out a farmhouse due to a recent death. “For whatever reason his name was left off the card and it was made in lot less quantities than the others, which in themselves are rare, it is considered the rarest football card in existence,” said Lou Brown, President of Legends Sports & Games and an avid collector himself.
He estimates it will be worth $10,000.
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