Richard Wolffers Auctions, Inc. offered three 1914 Boston Garter cards in their June 1993 auction and included these color photos of the Frank “Home Run” Baker and Walter Johnson cards.
The third card they included was #10 Ed Konetchy. Here are the B&W photos and lot descriptions for all three cards.
If you want to know more about the set, here’s how The Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards describes it:
The second of what are presumed to have been three annual issues by the George Frost Co., Boston, contains 12 cards. The colorful lithograph fronts have a player picture in front of a ballpark diagram. A large Boston-brand garter appears at the bottom. Baseball with the Boston Garter name appear in each upper corner. Black-and-white backs have a checklist for the set, career statistics for the player pictured and details of the cards’ availability. Retailers received one card per box of dozen garters and could write to the company to complete the set. About 4’’ x 8-1/4’’, they were intended to be displayed in shop windows.
A complete set of 12 would be nearly impossible to piece together today and would probably cost more than $1M. SGC has graded only 43 examples, while PSA has graded only two.
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