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Fantastic Hollywood Grab Bag including some of the great comedians and Oscar winning actors. The lot includes:
1930s Weight Machine cards (8) includes several of the most desirable cards in the run of weight machine cards that ran in the 1920s and 1930s. From the "A" series issued in the 1920s, green tint, W.C. Fields, VG, Victor McLaglen, VG,and Myrna Loy. From the "B" Series of the 1920s, Buster Keaton. From the 1930s series, George Raft, Oscar winner Walter Huston, black comedian Stepin Fetchit, and femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck. EXMT or better unless otherwise noted.
1920s W-Unc. Large Strip Cards: Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Victor McLaglen. VGEX
1922 T85 Strollers Cigarettes: William S. Hart, EX
1930s Adam Hats Celebrity Contest matchcover: Buddy Rogers, hole above strike area
1950s Sunset Fan Club (42 diff.): includes many film and music stars of the 1950s like Merv Griffin, Arthur Godfrey, Martha Raye, Joan Bennett, Teresa Brewer, etc. Like New
1940s Chicago Tribune war strip card issue with album pages
1960s Artvue Erich Von Stroheim PC
1950s Kodak PC Bob Steele
1929 Movie-Land Keno (2): from an interesting set of game cards that is a large photo of a star on one side and 16 smaller photos on the other side. The smaller images on the card are used to play a bingo/keno game. Offered here are two cards: one includes a small photo of Lon Chaney w/Billie Dove back, while the other has a Janet Gaynor back with a small photo of Buster Keaton.
1920s Exhibit movie cards (25): Mostly Westerns. Includes Tom Mix (3), Bob Steele, Buck Jones, Richard Dix and a variety of others, plus real life Western trick rider Edith Stirling, and a rare header card from the 1929 Tenderfoot series.
1930s Peerless weight machine card: Stepin Fetchit
1950s Sunset Fan Club: The cards are about 4 x 5 on slick paper and include Gene Autry and Cary Grant, plus an advertising sheet, mailing envelope and mail reply envelope.
1954 Masquerade Game Eric Guerin [jockey, HOFer]
1957 Panoramas de Mexico fold out set with beer advertising: a set of photos of sights in Mexico but the real treasure are the vintage cerveza ads on the back of the folder.
1950s-1960s Movie Star Exhibit Cards (2): Ricardo Montalban, George Hamilton
1940s-1960s Hollywood landmarks and movie stars postcards (25, avg. ex): Grauman’s Chinese Theater (4): Kirk Douglas, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine toasting their immortalization in concrete; Kashower #774 Grauman’s Chinese Theater; Mitock Plastichrome #P12276 showing the theater and some. Movie Star Homes (10): Portraits of the stars and their homes: Abbott & Costello, Robert Taylor, Bob Hope, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby (3), Will Rogers, Cary Grant, Eddie Cantor. HS Crocker Mirro-Krome Movie Stars (2): Ward Bond on Wagon Train, Henry Fonda in The Deputy; Fred MacMurray (2): 1941 in One Night In Lisbon, EKC back black and white portrait. The Brown Derby: 1941 postal cancellation. The Ambassador Hotel (4) including the World Famous Cocoanut Grove nightclub showing the Academy Awards under way (1941 postmark). 1965 NBC Johnny Carson. Western Publishing #888 First National Studios, Burbank, CA.
2007 Donruss Americana Private Signings Michael Pare