Auction #12 - October 2022
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/23/2022
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 lot is for a group of (5) R790 Leaf Pirates cards of the following subjects: #13 Ali Basha, #38 Walking the Plank, #51 Joto and Cisco, #58 Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and #100 Capt. John Criss. The cards are in Good to VGEX condition, averaging about VG.
R790 Leaf Pirates Lot of (5) Cards
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