Auction #15 - October 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/29/2023
The N96 Duke's Honest Long Cut Tobacco Actress Folder cards are larger cards issued in larger packs of Duke Cigarettes in the late 1880's to early 1890's. They picture unnamed actresses in a center panel with two side panels and once folded cover the actresses picture. The backs of the cards have an advertisement for Duke's Honest Long Cut Tobacco in the center panel with graphics on the two side panels. The set is a (25) card set and is one of the more interesting larger format cards that Duke created during the tobacco card heyday. The backs of the cards can be found with different graphics for the variation collector to pursue. Like all cards that were folded for insertion into packs, the cards are condition sensitive.
This lot of (3) cards from the N96 Duke Actresses Folders set include a pair in VGEX to EX condition and one that has two small star hole punches on the top border of the card. Two of the cards are of the same subject with different formatted backs. Great group for the type set collector or set builder.
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