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Description:
Up for sale/sale is a spectacular, museum-grade historic estate portfolio: a 100% complete, 200-card vintage 1910-1911 T59 American Tobacco Company "Flags of All Nations" set PLUS a 100% complete, 250-card 1991 Starline "Americana" companion set, beautifully housed together inside a single master collector's album!
Sourcing an entire 200-card pre-war tobacco checklist piece-by-piece can take a lifetime of specialized sale tracking. This beautiful collection offers an ultimate, time-saving shortcut—delivering a finished piece of turn-of-the-century history directly into your inventory vault in one clean transaction.
This master historical binder portfolio includes the following two complete components:
1. 100% COMPLETE 1910-1911 T59 FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS TOBACCO SET (200/200 CARDS)Issued over 115 years ago by the American Tobacco Company across various cigar products, this iconic multi-color set is a legendary masterpiece of early non-sport hobby history. Fascinatingly, this historic set does not feature a standalone United States national flag; instead, America is beautifully represented through a massive run of historic U.S. City flags and regional Yacht Club/Maritime banners!
The checklist runs the full gamut across all 4 historic sub-series completely intact:
- Series 1 & 2: Sovereign National flags and smaller principalities/colonies.
- Series 3 & 4: Historic major world cities, nautical signal flags, and early yacht club banners.
- Features highly collected advertisement backs of the era, primarily the famous red "Recruit Little Cigars" text.
- Condition Spectrum: The cards sit in honest, authentic raw vintage Fair to Good condition on average (with a few tracing slightly lower or higher). (Please see pics) Expect a century of genuine handling wear including edge softening, rounding, or mild surface/back paper characteristics typical of 1910s cardboard relics. They display breathtakingly rich, multi-color factory lithograph artwork and exceptional eye appeal.
2. BONUS 100% COMPLETE 1991 STARLINE "AMERICANA" SET (250/250 CARDS)An incredible 250-card modern companion run that beautifully rounds out the binder, tracing pop culture, historic monuments, and classic American icons. A great high-volume addition to this "Century of History" package!
Please review all listing photos closely, ask any questions, or request specific additional pictures before offerding, as I want you to buy with absolute confidence! Every description is written with maximum transparency, as I never want to understate or overstate the physical condition of these raw cards. This collection is sold strictly as-is with no returns.
