Auction #8 - June 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/28/2021
The D73 Stamps and Mail Carriers of Nations is a stock card set of (48) cards used by many different companies for advertising. In the larger horizontal format, non-sport.com has listed four different advertisers - Schmidt's Bakery, Crispy Top Bread, Carpenter's Milk Bread and Freihofer's Bread. The cards picture a native from the noted company on the card along with stamps from that country at all four corners on the front of the card. The title of the cards is typically "Mail in X' where "X" is the country name. The cards were not only used for bread company advertising but also for gum, candy, Canadian tobacco, U.S. tobacco, coffee and other products. The cards come in two different formats. A smaller, vertically formatted card and a larger horizontally formatted set.
This lot of (39) D73 mail carrier cards come in two formats. There are (14) of the smaller format cards primarily from Eatmor Bread but also from Fred'K Frank Coffee, Imperial Tobaco Company and Schorn & Brower. The large format cards number (25) and include cards from SMith & Sons Crackers/Chocolates/Peanuts as well as Cuban Belle cakes from Quaker's and Bastiani Brothers Bakers. The cards range from Good to EX with most around VG condition.
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