T80 Tolstoi Tobacco Military Complete set of (50) Cards with PSA-Graded

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/27/2019

The T80 Military set is an interesting set that is reminiscent of the T205 baseball set due to the gold borders and ornate graphics on the front of the card. The set is truly a beautiful work of art. Backs can be found for a number of manufacturers--some of which are prohibitively difficult. The most common back is Tolstoi, with Uzit, Lenox, Cairo Monopol and Old Mill being very difficult. Blank backs can also be found for the series which are also extremely difficult to obtain. All backs are printed in black with the exception of the UZIT blue printed backs. The Old Mill, Uzit and Lenox backed cards are popular with baseball collectors as back exemplars. Similarly backed T206 cards can easily run into the thousands of dollars.

This set of (50) cards is a near match-backed Tolstoi grouping. Within the set, 11 cards have been graded by PSA. They include the following grades: PSA2 (1 card), PSA4 (4 cards), PSA5(4 cards) and PSA6 (Inspector General US). There is also a PSA4(MC) Lenox-backed Officer Royal Indian Guard.

The ungraded cards all fall into the VGEX to EX category with a few better.