Auction #13 - February 2023

All > 19th Century Tobacco

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This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2023

The N167 Goodwin Tobacco set is one of the very earliest Goodwin Tobacco card sets and from the earlier part of the 1880's if not earlier. The cards picture actresses and other celebrities as well as baseball cards. The later are typically very difficult and worth many thousands of dollars. That you could pull a card from a tobacco card pack in the early 1880's that might be an actress or baseball player is interesting in itself but the disparity in value between the two cards just shows how supply and demand works. The actress portion of the set is of an undetermined size. The cards are sepia in tone and have blue printed backs on them.

This single N167 Goodwin Old Judge card pictures the subject "Gladstone" in poor condition with obvious condition issues. The card image on the front, however, is clean and complete as is the printing on the back of the card. William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894.