Auction #2 - June 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/23/2019
The S25 silk set issued by Egyptienne Luxury showcases many of the most famous universities and colleges in the United Stats and Canada. It also inexplicably includes a number of very obscure schools in the mix. How schools were selected for the S25 set is unknown but schools that are known in the L20 and L21 leather sets are not all in the silk sets and vice-versa. Notable exclusions in the S25 sets include mainstream colleges like North Carolina, Alabama and many more. The set is also good for variation collectors as there are a number of color variations for some of the schools. Still, fans of very tough subjects will love the hunt for the extremely elusive Amity college. The S25 offers a number of ways to collect a set and is great for alumni of schools to get a type card from their institution. The set is complete at 148 subjects.
This near complete set numbers (146/148) subjects and is missing only the subjects of Amity and Hiram. Amity is a prohibitive difficulty for some inexplicable reason and Hiram is one of the next tier of (10) tough subjects. Of those (10) subjects, (9) are present including: Alfred University, Alma, Bates, Boston University, Buchtel, CUA, DePaux, Virginia and Xavier.
Where there are variations in color, the set has the following of those variations: Bucknell (Orange), CCNY (Pink), California (Blue), Dartmouth (Green), Denver (Orange), Heidelberg (Red), Iowa (Red Letter), LSU (LSU, not Louisiana), OSU (Grey), Pratt (Black), Purdue (Black), W&J (Black) and Wisconsin (Red).
The condition composition of the near set breaks down as: 80% EX to NRMT, 15% VG to VGEX, 5% lesser. Overall, a very nice set, well above average for the issue.
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