2017 holiday
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2017
Presented is a 10-card complete set of R65 Goudey "History of Aviation" non-sports cards issued in 1936. These desirable 5-1/2" x 5-1/2" paper album pages were most likely given out with Goudey products in stores. Each card contains two printed "holes" which were meant to be punched in order to be inserted in a book or binder, of which one card has been punched (#10). The brightly colored fronts feature illustrations of famous aviators or aviation themes, while the backs have a detailed text and technical data describing the card front. Includes: #'s 1 Howard Hughes, 2 Captain Edward Rickerbacker, 3 Wiley Post, 4 Charles Lindbergh, 5 Richard E. Byrd, 6 "Willie Mae", 7 Hughes' Record Smasher, 8 Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, 9 "Over The North Pole With Byrd" and 10 Wings Over the Pacific. Mostly VG/EX to EX (one lesser).