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Lot 616
[CIGARETTE CARDS]. HART, Frank (1856-1908). Between the Act...
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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.
