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Non Sports
30 Lots
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 Lot 409. Better group of 91 Postcards, mostly from Exhibitions. Includes Set of 10 1893 Columbia Exposition in original envelope, (excellent +); 6 from the 1901 Pam American Exposition (nr mt); 15 from 1904 St. Louis Exhibition, 14 with silver borders, most ex-mt or nr mint, 1 used; Set of 16 1909 Hudson-Fulton in original envelope, near mint; 30 1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition (ex-mt or better), Extremely colorful lot in extremely nice condition.
Minimum Bid $400.
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 Lot 410. Lot of 44 caramel cards including E3 Navy Caramels Ships set. The E3 Navy set is a very colorful set with color drawings surrounded by a red border stripe. Condition is 2 cards vg-ex, 5 cards vg, 8 cards good, 2 cards fair-poor. The balance of 23 cards includes 15 E28 Zoo Caramels (vg-ex), 5 E26 Menagarie Gum Animals (vg-ex), 1 E8 Battleship U.S.S. Brooklyn (poor), 1 E15 Flag Caramels (poor) and 1 E40 Airplanes (good).
Winning Bid $330.
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 Lot 411. T6 Murad (large) College set of 25. A bigger and much rarer version of the more common T51 set. The offered set is especially difficut in this condition. All cards are excellent or better. Highlights include the highly desired Williams College card with a basketball theme, also Harvard (football), Rochester (hockey) and Fordham (baseball).
Winning Bid $1,209.
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 Lot 412. 1909 T99 Pan Handle Scrap Sights and Scenes of the World Set of 50. Incredible condition for this set with gold leaf borders. Usually found with flaking on the borders and creases. This set shows not a single case of this and all cards are minimally ex+-mt and most are near mint or better. The subject is historic scenes from around the world such as The Rock of Gibralter, the Roman Coliseum, Westminster Abbey, The Alps, The Acropolis, The Great Sphinx, The Lake at Killarney and of course The Brooklyn Bridge among many others.
Winning Bid $2,148.
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 Lot 413. Mixed group of 304 mostly tobacco non-sports cards including a partial set of 34 (of 50) T73 Indian Life, 49 T42 birds, 20 T77 Lighthouses, 145 T87 Wings, 9 J9-5 Useful Birds and 47 Bowman Wild Man. Details as follows: T73 Indian Life (21 vg-ex, 13 fair-good), T42 Birds (33 very good, 16 fair-good), T77 Lighthouse (19 ex-mt or better, 1 vg), T87 Wings (33 from Series 1, 37 from Series A, 38 from Series B, 37 from Series C, almost all ex-mt and better), J9-5 Birds (vg-ex) and 47 Bowman Wild Man (28 vg, balance fair-good). 304 cards in all.
Winning Bid $300.
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 Lot 415. 1930 Fleer “Whiz-Bang” Gum Group of 9 cards. From the recent find of a box of these previously unknown cards. The box consisted of 83 cards from what was an apparent set of 16. Included in the set were 3 different baseball cards and 13 non sports cards. Offered here are nine of the non sports cards as follows: Gary Cooper, Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, Chief Thunderbird, Wallace McDonald,. Jack Oakie, Ted Wells, Warner Baxter and George O’Brien. The group is near mint. Each card has two tiny factory punched slits which it is suspected would propel the cards. Included is a pack of “Whiz Bang” Game and 9 strings that apparently would go through the two tiny slits.
Winning Bid $666.
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 Lot 417. Better group of early non-sports from 3 better sets. Includes cards from F272-12 Wheaties Skippy, 16 R151 National Chicle Tom Mix booklets and 16 R790 Leaf Pirates. The tough Tom Mix Booklets include #1, 3-7, 9-11, 15-16, 19, 22-23 and two tougher second series 26 and 31. The Skippy cards include a complete set of 12 and 6 duplicates (average very good); The Leaf Pirates include 8 cards each from the numbered and unnumbered varieties. The numbered cards are 9, 22, 24 (2), 38, 45, 58 and 125. The unnumbered are “22” (3), “30”, “38”, “41”, “50” and “73”. All the Leaf Pirates are ex-mt or better.
Winning Bid $440.
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 Lot 418. F-unc. 1937 Donut Company of America partial set of 61 from 72 card set with Album. Cards issued as package design cards on the sides of donut boxes. Set was titled “Thrilling Moments in the Lives of Famous Americans”. The offered cards were glued in the album and were removed. There is some glue residue and the cards are neatly cut. The album is in much nicer condition than is usually found with note to the glue remains. The only sports star in the set is woman’s golf champion, Glenna Collett Vare.
Minimum Bid $300.
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 Lot 420. 1941 R157 Gum Inc. Uncle Sam set of 96 + 1 R158. A below average set with 45 cards with a pinhole and are somewhat faded. The balance are very good-excellent except for 11 which are fair-poor. The R158 is #118 and is fair.
Minimum Bid $200.
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 Lot 421. R65 1936 Goudey History of Aviation set of 10. Magnificent oversized set of 5 1/2” square thin cards depicting famous aviators or planes. Includes Rickenbacher, Hughes, Lindbergh, “Spirit of St. Louis”, etc. All are in near mint condition.
Winning Bid $1,149.
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 Lot 422. Uncut Sheet of R701-6 1949 Bowman Gum AMERICA SALUTES THE FBI set of 36. The 18 5/8” x 10” sheet has been mounted on a backing with photo corners and professionally matted and framed. Full Size is 23” x 14”. There is a brown stain at the bottom left of the sheet which affects five of the 24 cards. Otherwise, the sheet is flawless. The condition of the back of the sheet is unknown.
Winning Bid $711.
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