Lot # 3213: 1941 "All American Girls" Mutoscope Pinup Cards Complete Master Set (39): #1 PSA Set Registry (8.31 GPA)

Offered is a complete 39-card master set of 1941 "All American Girls" Mutoscope cards, entirely graded and encapsulated by PSA. This complete set is No. 1 on the PSA Set Registry with an extremely impressive overall GPA of 8.31. In the style of Exhibit cards of the era, from 1940 to 1945, the Mutoscope Reel Company issued cards featuring beautiful pinup artwork by the top illustrators of the day, for sale in penny arcade machines. The public's appetite for pinup art exploded during this era, with images by artists such as Gil Elvgren, Zoe Mozert, and Earl Moran appearing on everything from matchbook covers to ink blotters to calendars. Fortunately, youngsters were not left out of this impressive production of printed matter, as the Mutoscope Company made these (for the times) very risqué images available to kids at amusement parks and anywhere arcade machines could call home. A total of six different series were issued during this period. Each card measures approximately 3.25 x 5.25 inches. PSA Grading Composite: GEM MINT 10 (4 cards): Bachelor Made, Mist-ery, Station W.O.W., and The Lady is Waiting. MINT 9 (13 cards): A Lad-Her Problem, Eyes Right, Feminine Propaganda/small letters, High Pressure, Intoxicatingly Yours, Kiss Me Again, Miss-Placed Confidence, Red, White, and You, Relax, Right Dress, Shoulder Arms, Up in the Air/small letters, and Welcome Marines/without hat. NM-MT+ 8.5 (5 cards): Heads Up, Knee-Ding a Lift, Peek-A-View, Sailor's Sweetheart, and What Hoe. NM-MT 8 (10 cards): Air Minded/small letters, Envious, Help Wanted, If She Could Only Cook/small letters, Jutht My Thize, Lucky Dove/small letters, No Stares, Orchids to You, Present Arms/small letters, and Soldier's Sweetheart. NM 7 (4 cards): Air Minded/large letters, If She Could Only Cook/large letters, Up in the Air/large letters, and Welcome Marines/with hat. EX-MT+ 6.5 (1 card): Lucky Dove/large letters. EX-MT 6 (2 cards): Feminine Propaganda/large letters and Present Arms/large letters. A very attractive complete set of this classic 1940s pinup series, the highest-ranked set listed on the PSA Registry! Total: 39 cards. The size/weight of this item requires that there will be an additional shipping charge for this lot.