Auction #14 - June 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/25/2023
The N158 Duke Honest Long Cut War Photographs set is an albumen real photo card set similar to many of the card sets of the day. The subject matter is the 1898 Spanish-American War ships and officers. The Spanish-American war began when the U.S.S. Maine sank in Havana, Cuba harbor in February of 1898. The set includes what appears to be a total of (28) cards with (13) Officers and (15) ship cards. The cards of the officers are formatted in a vertical orientation and the ships are mostly in horizontal orientation with a couple vertical. The cards are full bleed photos not having borders like most of the 19th century albumen cards.
This near set of (27/28) cards lacks only the nearly impossible Holmes subject to be complete. This set is largely in VG to NRMT condition averaging about EX to EXMT. This lot represents an opportunity to get the lion's share of this set in a single purchase. This is, without a doubt, one of the finest N158 sets extant and in better condition than the set we sold in the January 2020 auction that was (24/26). Just a beautiful, turnkey set.
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