Auction #19 - February 23, 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2025
The J. Milhoff tobacco company issued a set of (25) cards in 1924 to form a set called Men of Genius. The set celebrates men who have changed the world through their writings, experiments and escapades. Luminaries in the set include Edison, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Lincoln, Hugo, Darwin, Wright, Einstein, Tolstoy, Poe and others. The set is very popular with collectors.
This lot of (7) Inventors from the 1924 J. Millhoff & Co Men of Genius have all been graded by SGC and includes the following subjects: #12 William Caxton (SGC7 NM), #11 Senator Guglielmo Marconi (SGC5 EX), #16 Wilhelm Konrad Von Rontgen (SGC6 EXMT), #23 Sir J.M. Barrie (SGC5 EX), #21 Sir Walter Raleigh (SGC6 EXMT), #25 Joseph Mallord William Turner (SGC5 EX), #24 Louis Pasteur (SGC7 NM). Great mixed group of cards from this popular set.
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