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[BASEBALL CARDS]. Group of Three Scarce Cigarette Cards for Almendares Players, and one Carte de Visite Full-length Portrait of the Legendary Regino Mamelo, including: Evaristo Pla. Trainer Almendares 1910 Ramon Carreras Reina 6. [Havana: Punch Cigarros,] 1910. Cigarette card featuring trainer Evaristo Pla. Printed caption. Approximately 1 ¾ x 1 ¼”. Mounted onto stiff paper. Toned, worn, soiled. Very good. Ungraded. Scarce. Pla was the trainer for the Almendares Baseball Club. Illustrated in A Thousand Words, (2022) by Mark Rucker. And R. Garcia C. Mamelo. [Havana: Cabañas, 1909]. Cigarette card featuring Regino Garcia. Approximately 2 ¼ x 1 ½”. Minor occasional soiling. Excellent. Ungraded. Mamelo was a catcher in the Cuban leagues, playing for several teams. He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1941. Illustrated in A Thousand Words, (2022) by Mark Rucker. And A Group of Two Photographs or Cigarette Cards of Cuban Baseball Players, including: Unmounted cabinet full-lenghth photograph of a Regino Mamelo Garcia (Garcia’s trophy bat is part of this sale in another lot). [Boston: W. Shaw Warren (?), ca. 1910s]. Albumen print of the famous Almendares Base Ball Club player in uniform. Approximately 3 x 2”. Toned, some mild edgewear, verso soiled and foxed. With a loose cabinet card mount from W. Shaw Warren (bright and clean - possibly not issued with the photograph). And A. Cabrera (Manager) Cigarros “Aguilitas” Cigarette Card. [Havana: Cigarros “Aguilitas”, ca. 1923-1924]. Approximately 2 ¼ x 1 ½”. Minor toning, soiling to verso. An excellent group. From the Mark Rucker Collection. Seel also lot 482.