Auction #11 - June 2022
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/26/2022
1948 and 1949 saw the Leaf company issue a number of sets. Baseball, Football and Boxing sets dominated their sports offerings and a Pirates set was their nonsports offering for the year. The Pirates set is 49 cards issued on sheets in 7x7 format. The cards, like Leaf's other offerings offer drawings in a limited number of colors. The Pirates have rich blues, reds and yellows with darker black tones. The cards picture many different, well-known topics and pirates like Captain Kid, Edward Teach Blackbeard and even the female pirate Anne Bonney. Other cards have captions like "Dead Men Tell no Tales", "Slave Trading", "Walking the Plank" and other famous Pirate phrases. The set is a pleasing VGEX to EX condition and displays nicely with a few better and a few worse in condition.
This single 1948 Leaf Pirate card is of the subject #136 Dr. Thomas Dover that has been graded by PSA as NM7. Beautiful card. There is a small crack in the PSA case right by the 'Doctor' in the title box of the card.
1949 Leaf Pirate Cards #136 Dr. Thomas Dover PSA7 NM
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