Auction #5 - June 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/28/2020
The N566 Newsboy series pictures Actresses and numbers into the hundreds of cards. The Newsboy cabinets were likely point-of-sale giveaways for buying the Newsboy brand of tobacco. The cabinets are standard 4-1/4" x 6-1/2" cabinets and have an albumen photo adhered to a red-inked mount advertising Newsboy of New York at the bottom front of the cabinet. Cabinets are blank-backed and often numbered on either the cabinet front or within the photo field itself and, occasionally both places. Many actresses have multiple poses or can be found with different mounts and the set offers the variation collector some real opportunities.
This lot is for a single N566 Newsboy of Isabelle Irving that has been graded as SGC50 or VGEX 4. SGC and PSA are notoriously difficult graders for these oversized cabinets and to get a 4 or 5 represents some of the better grades you will see on a Newsboy or other 19th century albumen photo cabinet card. Great item.
N566 Newsboy Tobacco Actress Cabinet - SGC50
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