Set Reminder2024-03-07 12:00:002024-03-07 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Ephemera, Americana, & Historical Memorabilia https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/ephemera-americana-historical-memorabilia-21911 We are pleased to announce our March 2024 Ephemera auction, featuring the collection of Mark Rucker. Photographs, trade cards, souvenir advertising fans, baseball memorabilia, and a kaleidoscopic range of printed paper ephemera of all kinds will cross the auction block.
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[CIGARETTE CARDS]. HART, Frank (1856-1908). Between the Acts & Bravo Cigarettes / Hart Pedestrian. New York: Heppenheimer & Maurer for Thos. H. Hall, [ca. 1880s]. Rare tinted lithographed card with portrait of Hart on front and manufacturer?s advertisement on verso. Approximately 3 x 1 ??. Slabbed and graded by PSA (?VG? ?3?). Hart was the first African-American world champion of pedestrianism (similar to race walking). He later played shortstop for several Negro League baseball clubs. He was one of the first African-American sports celebrities in America.