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Sat, Mar 28, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 298

[Breweriana] Anheuser-Busch Spanish-American War Deck in ?Sailors Prayer Book? Case.

Estimate: $250 - $350

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[Breweriana] Anheuser-Busch Spanish-American War Deck in ?Sailors Prayer Book? Case. Cincinnati, 1900. 52 (no Joker). Color lithographed courts and Aces, backs with gilt metallic detail, gilt edges. Jacks and Kings are turned into likenesses of military officers (Theodore Roosevelt, Wood, Dewey, Otis, and others), and the Queens include Columbia, ?Our Colonies,? Liberty, and Justice). Aces advertise varieties of beer, and pip cards depict war ships and the brewery. In a contemporary clasping leather case lettered in gilt, blind-stamped seal of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, with a miniature booklet (1909), ?The Soldiers or Sailors Prayer Book.? Hochman W16.