Auction #13 - February 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2023
No set typifies the 1930's gum card offerings of war and grit and strife more than the R69 Horrors of War set. Issued in 1938, before the United States had entered WWII, the set was printed on sheets of 24 cards with 10 sheets making up the base low number offering. Two sheets or 48 cards made up the high number section for a total of 288 cards. The cards pictured all manner of unspeakable acts from the beginnings of WWII perpetrated by those who would be come the Axis powers of the war.
Horrors of War and Indian Gum may have the most wrappers of any sets in the 1930's. This lot includes four different of the known repeating HOW wrappers. The blue, yellow, green and white. Horrors of war repeating wrappers have four different background images and this group of four wrappers all have the same background image of the cannon.
This wrapper is in EX condition and pictures the four figure graphic in yellow. Great piece.
R69 Gum Inc Horrors of War Four Figure Wrapper (YELLOW)
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