Auction #11 - June 2022
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/26/2022
The N126 Duke's Tobacco Rulers, Flags and Arms of Nations set is a (51) card set that pictures (50) rulers and their nations and a card for Niagara Falls. The (50) rulers cards can be found with center panel advertising for Duke's Cameo Cigarettes, Turkish Cross-Cut Cigarettes or Duke's Cigarettes and offer something extra for the variation collector to consider. The cards are folded into three panels that, when folded, measure the same size as the normal-sized tobacco cards of the 1880's. The cards are condition sensitive--particularly at the folds and corners and are much thinner than the normal 19th century tobacco card. There is another format of the cards that features thicker cards and advertises the Honest Long Cut brand on the back in a non-folding format.
The N133 Duke Tobacco Governors set is a set in a similar format to the N126 Duke Flags and Rulers triple folder set. The cards can be found with advertising at the bottom of the front center panel for either Turkish Cross-Cut, Duke's Cameo or Duke's Cigarettes. The set is a (48) card set. The backs of the cards feature a map of the state or territory from the front along with some demographic information that matches the state for the late 1880's.
This lot of (7) cards is comprised with (5) N126 Examples (Italy, Oldenburg, Spain, Scotland, Switzerland) and a pair of N133 Examples (Washington Territory and Nebraska). All (7) cards are in the VG to VGEX range and are clean for the issue. The thick versions of these sets are much tougher than are the triple folder versions.
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