Inaugural January 2019 Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/27/2019
No set typifies the 1930's gum card offerings of war and grit and strife more than the R69 Horrors of War set. Issued in 1938, before the United States had entered WWII, the set was printed on sheets of 24 cards with 10 sheets making up the base low number offering. Two sheets or 48 cards made up the high number section for a total of 288 cards. The cards pictured all manner of unspeakable acts from the beginnings of WWII perpetrated by those who would be come the Axis powers of the war.
Horrors of War and Indian Gum may have the most wrappers of any sets in the 1930's. This lot includes four different of the known repeating HOW wrappers. The blue, yellow, green and white. Horrors of war repeating wrappers have four different background images and this group of four wrappers all have the same background image of the cannon.
All four wrappers appear to be in VGEX or better condition with the green wrapper having a very small hole below the word "gum" in the lower middle section of the wrapper. All four wrappers are of the five line text version. While the green wrapper is known as green, it is just a slightly different shade than the wrapper that is definitely yellow and has always been one of the tougher of the repeating variations. This lot of (4) is a fantastic opportunity to knock out a big chunk of the HOW repeating wrappers and a great addition to a complete set of cards. There is a complete set of HOW cards in the featured lots section of this auction.
Yellow, White, Blue and Green.
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