This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/4/2016
Offered is a 79-card partial set of T68 "Heroes of History/Men of History" non-sports cards issued by Royal Bengals in 1911/1912. These colorful cards illustrate daring men (and women!) of the ages. In total, 55 cards have been graded by PSA. Includes: "Heroes of History" (39) - Partial set 39 of 50 cards. In total, 25 cards have been graded by PSA. Includes: Graded PSA VG-EX 4: 1 card, W.H. Harrison; PSA VG+ 3.5: 3 cards w/Peter Cooper, Wm. E. Gladstone and Patrick Henry; PSA VG 3: 14 cards w/Daniel Boone, Li Hung Chang, Count de Lesseps, Capt. John Ericsson, Geronimo, Nathan Hale, Gen. Robt. E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Molly Pitcher, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sitting Bull, Betsey Ross, Gen. Wm. T. Sherman and James Watt; PSA GD 2: 6 cards w/Benjamin Franklin, Gen. John C. Fremont, Paul Jones, William Penn, Daniel Webster and Eli Whitney; PSA PR 1: 1 card, Joan of Arc. Missing Ethan Allen, Napoleon Bonaparte, Admiral Farragut, Robert Fulton, Gen. U.S. Grant, Lafayette, Zebulon Pike, Paul Revere, Count Von Moltke, George Washington and Duke of Wellington for completion. Grades 51% VG to VG/EX, 31% GD to GD/VG, 18% lesser; "Men of History" (40) - Partial set 40 of 50 cards. In total, 30 cards have been graded by PSA. Includes: Graded PSA VG-EX 4: 7 cards w/Julius Caesar, Henry Clay, Hon. David Crockett, Louis XIV of France, Pres. James Monroe, Gen. Winfield Scott and Peter Stuyvesant; PSA VG+ 3.5: 9 cards w/Gen. George A. Custer, Elias Howe, Pres. Andrew Jackson, Pres. T. Jefferson, Chas. Stewart Parnell, Francisco Pizarro, Richard III of England, Capt. John Stark and Hon. Chas. Sumner; PSA VG 3: 12 cards w/Alexander the Great, Henry Ward Beecher, Edwin Booth, Hernando Cortez, Edward VII of England, King George III, Hon. Horace Greeley, Alexander Hamilton, Henry VIII King of England, Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Sir Henry Irving and Stonewall Jackson; PSA GD 2: 1 card, Rear Adm. W.S. Schley; PSA PR 1: 1 card, Cardinal Richelieu. Missing Elizabeth of England, Robert Emmett, Cyrus W. Field, John Harvard, General Havelock, Emperor Nero, Wendell Phillips, William Shakespeare, Hon. Henry M. Stanley and Elihu Yale for completion. Grades 78% VG to VG/EX, 10% GD to GD/VG, 12% lesser.