Net a prized catch, with this late 19th Century & early 20th Century non-sport card lot of (181). More than two dozen different series are represented in this collection of antique tobacco issues, with historic figures and actors/actresses playing the dominant roles.

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19th Century Cards:

N27 Allen & Ginter World’s Beauties Second Series (1): Lillian Grubb (FR-GD);

N28 Allen & Ginter World’s Champions 1st Series (2): Charlie Mitchell pugilist presents VG details with deference to tape on the reverse; and George Slosson billiard player (FR);

N33 Allen & Ginter World’s Smokers (1): Sir Walter Raleigh presents GD+ details with deference to partial surface loss on back;

N70/N71 Duke Actors and Actresses Series 1 & 2 (32) with: (9) ranging (GD to VG, (1) lesser); (13) showing GD to VG details with deference to album adhesive/paper residue or surface loss on the back; and (10) with skinned backs that show GD to VG details;

N94 Duke Actors and Actresses with (4): (1) trimmed with FR details; and  (3) small versions created by cutting apart a large card; 

N74 Duke Fishers and Fish (1): Barbed Loach (GD);

N76 Duke Great Americans (5): Edwin Booth (2): (1) VG details wit deference to album adhesive/paper residue on the back and (1) FR details with deference to surface loss on the back, Robert Fulton (GD), Patrick Henry (VG), Oliver Hazard Perry (FR);

N86 Duke Scenes of Perilous Occupations (1): Highwayman (FR);

N114 Duke Histories of Generals (6): Braxton Bragg complete (FR-GD), A.P. Hill covers detached,G.E. Pickett complete (FR), W.T. Sherman complete (VG+), Gen. Garfield front cover only, Gen. Lyon front cover only;

N222 Kinney Leaders (18) including a partial set of (14/25) and (4) duplicates, with: (12) ranging (FR to VG+): U.S. Grant (2), R.E. Lee, Martha Washington, Napoleon, Mary Queen of Scots (2), Lord Nelson (2), Joan of Arc, Julius Caesar, Duke of Wellington; and (6) showing FR to VG details with deference to album adhesive/paper or surface loss on the back: George Washington, (2)Marie Antoinette, Louisa of Germany, Mme. Recamier, Patti;

N224 Kinney Military Series (15) with: (6) showing GD details with deference to adhesive stains or minor surface loss on the back; (7) showing PR to FR details with deference to adhesive stains or minor surface loss on the back; and (2) showing GD details with deference to skinned backs;

N225 Kinney National Dances (1): Jarabe Female (GD+);

N245 Sweet Caporal Actors and Actresses sepia photo cards (25): range (80% FR to GD, 20% PR);

N346 Between the Acts Presidents of the United States (1): John Adams (PR-FR); 

N129 Duke Stars of the Stage 1st Series (4) with (2) that rate as (VG, FR) and (2) trimmed;

N554 Finzer Inventors & Inventions (1): John Ericsson (FR);

N15 Great Generals (1): Napoleon with front and back of two different cards adhered together; 

20th Century Cards:

T25 Between the Acts Actors (11): range (GD to VG) with Eddie Foy Sr., Edwin Booth, William Crane, Louis Mann, James Hackett, John Lester Wallack, Joseph Jefferson, Kyrle Bellew, Stuart Robson, Hebry Dixey, Frank Worthing; 

T51 Murad College Series (2): Harvard football (GD+), Pennsylvania State baseball (GD);

T59 Jack Rose/Sub Rosa Flags of All Nations 3rd Series (3): Anhalt, Hesse, Naples all show GD to VG details with deference to adhesive residue on the back;

T68 Royal Bengals/Pan Handle Heroes/Men of History (16): range (25% GD, 50% FR, 25% PR) with Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett, Henry VIII, Nero, William Penn, John Harvard, Joan of Arc, Henry Clay (2), King George, King Phillip, Admiral Sampson, Admiral Schley, General Scott, Roger Williams, Nathan Hale;

T87 Wings Cigarettes Modern American Airplanes (1): Lockheed 212 demonstrator shows VG details with deference to tape stains on back;

T99 Pan Handle Sights and Scenes of the World (1): Mauretania (GD);

T118 Hassan World’s Greatest Explorers (18): David Livingstone (VG);

T175 American Tobacco Heroes of the Spanish War (1): Theodore Roosevelt shows GD details with deference to skinned back;

S75 Zira Cigarettes Famous Queens Silks (9): all different range (GD to VG-EX).