VTG SET Bates Color-Cards Prints HONOLULU HAWAIIAN LEIS SELLERS QUEEN SURFERS ++

Description

Here we have
an authentic vintage partial set of Bates Color-Cards (Honolulu, Hawaii.) Includes a strip of four smooth cardstock cards, printed on both sides, for a total of eight different prints on four cards. (
The first photo, showing the entire strip is actually two photos placed side by side, so you're seeing the front on the left side of the photo, and the back of that same single strip of four cards on the right side
.) The four cards include:
Surf Rider
, reverses to
Kaneohe
Iolani Palace,
reverses to
Koko Head
Hawaiian Lei Sellers,
reverses to
Flame Tree
Lei Queen,
reverses to
Aloha OE
Condition
: Our photographs reveal the condition best and are the most important part of the description--please zoom in on them and examine them carefully, and ask questions if the photos don't provide all of the information you need. Partial set -- the top of the strip has been torn off, and still includes a bit of the card that was right above
Surf Rider
-- the title of the missing card on that side remains --
Waikiki Beach
. We don't know how many cards besides that one are missing. Top card is torn unevenly across the top, leaving part of it missing, and part of the card that had been there left behind. Lightly bumped corners, very light shelf wear, nothing specific that stands out, or we would mention it. The print quality was never great on these, and the color was always strange. Some are illustrations, others photo images. The Lei Queen is probably a print of a photographic copy of an original black and white photo that was hand-colored. Interesting and fun mish-mash that would look cool framed as a collection. We consider funky odors (cigarette smoke, mildew, etc) to be an important part of a condition report. Corndogcache is a 100% non-smoking environment, and we'll let you know if any of our vintage items smell like it (
or anything else
) from activities they may have been involved in before they came to us.
Approximate
Measurements
:
please see last photo with rulers
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. Most pieces are sealed under clear plastic and sandwiched between cardboard before being sent as first-class
parcels
in non-bendable mailers. We do not toss our ephemera into thin stationery envelopes with forever stamps pasted to them expecting the USPS to deliver them to you with great care.
We have lots and lots of interesting vintage and antique ephemera listing daily, and
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on one single invoice/order
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The Fine Print:
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