Lot # 3168: 1911-1912 T70 Misc. Brand "Historical Events Series" and T68 Royal Bengals "Heroes/Men of History" Collection (145)

Presented is a substantial collection of 145 assorted cards from the 1911-1912 T70 Misc. Brand "Historical Events Series" and T68 Royal Bengals "Heroes/Men of History" series. The card fronts feature beautiful full-color lithography. The back of each card features a summary or biography of the subject and an advertisement for various tobacco brands. This collection consists of the following: 1) 1911 T70 Misc. Brands "Historical Events Series" Partial Set (18/25 cards) Plus Four Duplicates: Condition ranges from Pr to Gd (averaging Pr-Fr), with ten trimmed.Includes three small-size variations and nineteen large-size (ten have been trimmed to the borders). Missing the following seven cards: Custer's Last Rally, Ethan Allen Capturing Fort Ticonderoga, Inauguration of Lincoln, Liberty Pole Festival, The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, Sinking of the Merrimac, and Washington Crossing the Delaware. Includes the following duplicates : Admiral Farragut at New Orleans, Boston Tea Party. , two Dewey at Battle of Manila, Inauguration of Washington, and Perry on Lake Erie.2) 1911-1912 T68 Royal Bengals "Heroes/Men of History" Partial Set (69/100 cards) Plus 54 Duplicates: Includes the following advertising backs: Royal Bengals (103), Pan Handle (13) and Miners Extra (6). Condition ranges from Pr to Vg (averaging Fr), with three cards trimmed to the borders. Missing the following thirty-one cards: Hon. Phineas T. Barnum, Napoleon Bonaparte, Daniel Boone, Sitting Bull, Henry Clay, Davy Crockett, George Armstrong Custer, Fernando de Soto, Queen Elizabeth I, Victor Emmanuel, Robert Emmett, Cyrus W. Field, Benjamin Franklin, Geronimo, Ulysses S. Grant, Alexander Hamilton, King Henry VIII, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Joan of Arc, Marquis de Lafayette, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, President James Monroe, Oliver Hazard Perry, Molly Pitcher, Peter Stuyvesant, Hon. Chas. Sumner, George Washington, and Daniel Webster, Duplicates: Bismarck, Thomas Byrnes, two Lord Baltimore, four Christopher Columbus, two Peter Cooper, five Hernando Cortes, four John Ericsson, Robert Fulton, two William Gladstone, Nathan Hale, John Harvard, Henry Havelock, Patrick Henry, two Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, Henry Hudson, two King Phillip V, Thaddeus Kosciusko, two Ferdinand de Lesseps, Count Von Moltke, Emperor Nero, William Penn, two Zebulon Pike, Francisco Pizarro, King Richard III of England, two Cardinal Richelieu, Rear Admiral Winfield Scot Schley, Captain Myles Standish, Henry M. Stanley, two George Stephenson, two Duke of Wellington, Eli Whitney, two Roger Williams, and Elihu Yale. This is a mostly lower-grade collection from these very popular sets that are highly prized by both historical collectors and nonsport tobacco-card collectors. Total: 145 cards.