Lot # 3377: 1909-1910 T51 Murad "College Series" and Circa 1910 B33 "College Athlete, Pennant and Seal" Fringed Rugs Collection (22) Including Williams Basketball and Yale Football

Presented is a substantial collection of twenty-one (sixteen different) T51 Murad Cigarettes "College Series" cards, plus a circa 1910 B33 "College Athlete, Pennant and Seal" Fringed Rug. The T51 cards measure 2-1/16 x 2-11/16 inches and are very colorfully illustrated, most with an athletic image and the seal and pennant of the college depicted. The designs are shared between the T51 series and the larger (5 x 8 inches) T6 Murad premiums issue. The Murad "College Series" sets feature a variety of sports but are especially noted for the inclusion of baseball and football as well as some of the earliest basketball and hockey cards produced. The first fifty cards (Series 1-25 and Series 26-50) in the T51 set can be found with or without a "2nd Edition" notation. Ten cards in this collection include a "2nd Edition" notation.

This collection consists of the following: T51: Brown, Chicago, three Columbia, two Cornell, Cotner (EX-MT 6 [MK]), Haverford College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Notre Dame, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, two Dartmouth, two Yale, West Point, and Williams (basketball). B33: Yale (football). The condition of the collection is Gd to Vg overall, with six lesser. Approximately half of the cards have factory packing stamps on the backs, which is very common to this issue. This is a scarce and extremely popular 1910-era series appealing to sport and nonsport collectors alike. Total: 22 items.