Graded SGC 60 EX 5. A true hobby masterpiece returning to the market due to a non-paying bidder. Before I even begin to repeat the remarkable virtues of the presented pasteboard treasure, please note that, in order to appease our original consignor, Mile High purchased the item after the situation grew increasingly ugly with the high bidder. Our consignor received his check within our stipulated payment period and the high-bidder was banned from ever again participating in our auctions. And so, proudly offered once again is the great grandfather of all Cy Young cards and the single most significant E107 example extant, a jaw-dropping 1903 E107 Breisch Williams example of Cy Young that has somehow miraculously survived in EX condition. The Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards sums up the scarce E107 set better than any other source: "Values shown for EX and NM grades are mostly theoretical, as few cards are known in better than VG condition." Indeed, as of the date of publication, PSA reports less than 100 total examples on record from the entire set, with just 4 examples ever grading at or above the EX 5 level. SGC, on the other hand, has graded precisely 383 examples, only 27 of which have attained EX 5 status or better. Importantly, no examples of Cy Young can be counted among those 27. In fact, Ed Delahanty, John McGraw, and the offered Cy Young are the only Hall of Famers to be counted among those 27 superiors, with PSA reporting just a single Rube Waddell and a single Eddie Plank at the EX 5 tier or better. In short, unless you think Eddie Plank is somehow more important than Cy Young, the presented pasteboard miracle is the single finest E107 Breisch Williams card extant. Interested bidders should also be informed that there exist a total of 9 Cy Young E107's registered at SGC and PSA combined, but none of those 9 have ever surpassed the VG 3 tier, except, of course, this one. Incredibly, it features a nearly immaculate NM/MT image of Denton True in his period lace-up Boston Americans uniform with superb focus and unprecedented contrast (that is, the relative difference between light and dark areas) for the issue. The image is particularly noteworthy, as the E107 set features the majority of its major stars and HOFers in street clothes, a far cry from the fancy lace-up throwback featured here on Mr. Young. The centering, to continue, is incredibly accurate for the issue, bordering on pristine. Both surfaces are completely 100% free of any stains, toning, wrinkles, creases, or paper loss. In fact, the only convincing EX feature throughout is the uniform wear evident at the corners, while the edges appear marginally superior at EX/MT. A perfectly centered, clean, and imperfection-free example of Cy Young's 1903 E107 Breisch Williams. Breisch Williams... Just saying the name evokes the sublime. As the first major baseball card set issued since the 1880s, its 1-3/8" by 2-5/8" size would set the precedent for the hundreds of candy and tobacco issues to follow over the course of the next few decades. In this sense, the Breisch Williams set is indeed the great grand daddy of all succeeding issues, and the offered Cy Young is the king of them all!