Auction #16 - February 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2024
The American Tobacco Company (ATC) issued a number of sets to be inserted into packages of cigarettes sold overseas--mostly in the UK--in an effort to combat the newly formed British American Tobacco (BAT) company. The "Tobacco War" era as it was called was one of fierce competition for the cigarette tastes of the UK and European market. To that end, both the ATC and BAT created card sets as inserts into their packages for this lucrative market. Most all of these sets were cataloged by Burdick in the T400-T499 range. Many are quite scarce and are most frequently found still in the UK rather than in the United States. In many instances, artwork was used from previous sets from Kinney, Kimball and other 19th century popular series. In other instances, new artwork was commissioned.
The T428 ATC Flags set is a (50) card set that uses the images from the Allen & Ginter N9 Flags of All Nations set from 20 years earlier. The set does not include the N9 Corea and Roumania cards but rather has Nova Scotia and San Salvador. The backs of the cards have the checklist for the set of (50) cards.
This lot of (19) T428 ATC Flag cards are in Fair condition with glue stains on the four corners of the backs. The fronts display very nicely however and the set is one of the tougher ATC sets in the T401-T499 run.
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