Duke Gems Of Beauty Checklist (ACC# N111 & N141)

The Duke Gems Of Beauty set was basically released twice, once with the Honest Long Cut brand and once with the Fair Play Long Cut brand. The set itself consists of 25 cards, unnumbered and with no official checklist. The fronts of the two issues are essentially the same with some small differences in the borders on the fronts and the primary difference being the backs – the N111 issue has an ad for Honest Long Cut, while the N141 issue promotes the Fair Play brand. Both issues were released around 1890.

The fronts of the cards show bust-length images of women with pastel backgrounds. The checklist below gives a brief description of the pictured woman on each card.

Gems Of Beauty (25)

1. Red hat, looking right
2. Red top, looking right
3. Blond hair, looking right
4. Black hat with blue flowers, looking right
5. Blue hat, looking right
6. Yellow hat with flowers, looking right
7. Top with black fringe, looking right
8. Yellow hat with large ribbon, looking right
9. Red hair with black parasol, looking right
10. Red top with black fringe, looking right
11. Fancy blue hat, looking forward
12. White top, red hair with hat, looking forward
13. Blue top and hat, read hair, looking forward
14. White top, hat with flowers, looking forward
15. Short hair, necklace, looking forward
16. Red top and hat, looking forward
17. Black hair, looking left
18. Long red hair with hat, looking left
19. Top with black fringe, looking left
20. Black hair, lace shawl, looking left
21. Red top, looking left
22. Black hair with fancy head wrap, looking left
23. Dark blue top, looking left
24. Red hair, top with white fringe, looking left
25. Black hair, fancy hat, looking left

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