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Posted By: Laura

I am in the process of deconstructing a derelict scrapbook album from 1891, and thought you all might appreciate these little guys (the upright one is about 3" tall.) They are die cut Oblaten, or scraps, likely printed in Germany in a sheet. They had been cut apart (you can see the tabs where they were connected) and pasted into the album. Enjoy!

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Posted By: barrysloate

Those are the cleanest examples I've ever seen.

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Posted By: Laura

Tom tells me they are from the R&S Artistic Series, and when I Google, I see there were a total of ten. In this album are nine of the ten, and some dupes. Most are in pretty good shape too, we'll see once I leverage them out (oh so carefully!)

Here was another little treasure from that album, an N463 (that I've already shared over on the NS side):

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Posted By: Laura

There are also some boxers in with this group (still on album page), anyone know anything about them?

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Posted By: B.C.Daniels

is my guess! i bought some Judo cards like this on e-bay a few months back and two different collectors told me they were from 1911. they look older to me!

BcD