Set Break! 1911 T3 Turkey Red Cabinets Complete Set (100) offered in lots 446-481.

The incomparable, full-color T3 cabinet cards, obtainable only through a fulfillment offer described on coupons packaged with Turkey Red, Fez and Old Mill brand cigarettes, can be described without exaggeration as the flagship collectibles of the 20th Century card hobby. Their images, proffering glorious poses of legendary ballplayers surrounded by the splendor of their lush playing fields, were rendered at a moment in time that could not be approached, let alone equaled, under modern circumstances. Even if the inclination and the resources were available, to produce lithography of semi-equivalent brilliance, the devastating effects of World War I on the venerable German inkmakers (and the environmentalists’ objections to certain chemicals) has seen to that. T3’s were once-in-a-millenium gifts to our sensibilities. This fresh to the hobby set is offered as singles, with a few group lots of the lower graded examples.