Auction #18 - October 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/10/2024
The R50 First Column Defenders by the Goudey Gum Company is a (24) card set picturing patriotic pictures at a time when the world was blowing up into World War II. It is one of many such patriotic sets, issued in 1940 right before the United States entered World War II. The cards picture colorful representations of the different armed services as well as other patriotic US symbols like the US Flag, an eagle, Uncle Sam and others.
This complete set of (24) R50 Goudey First Column Defenders are very clean ranging from VG to EX, averaging around VGEX. This set is very consistent throughout. The images of the set are quintessential US images. The Statue of Liberty card (#14) is in EX condition and very clean. Card #1 was cracked out of SGC grading as originally an SGC60 or EX card. The set is a great turnkey set that would fit in a top shelf gum card collection.
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