Lot # 301: 1889 N85 Duke Postage Stamp Card collection (4) - All SGC Graded

Category: Non-Sports Cards

Starting Bid: $25.00

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Item was in Auction "Love of the Game February 2, 2013 Auction",
which ran from 1/14/2013 7:50 PM to
2/3/2013 8:14 AM



Extremely attractive small group of 19th Century postage stamp cards as issued by W. Duke & Sons. Each of these fascinating cards depicts a different mail-related scene from around the world and inset into each lithograph is an actual cancelled postage stamp from a different country. The Duke advertising on the reverse is interesting appealing to the collector in all of us and shedding some insight into how financially-driven collectors could be even as early as 1889: "A genuine foreign postage stamp from a collection of over a thousand varieties ranging in value from one cent to two dollars & fifty cents each. Not only the beginner but the owner of a large collection will find amongst our stamps such as he could never find before."An interesting group graded by SGC as follows: Chinese Letter (SGC VG+ 45) Ship of the Desert (SGC VG+ 45) Last Round (SGC VG 40) and NY Post Office (SGC GOOD 30). From the Rudy Strejc Collection.

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