J. C. Leyendecker

The Art of J. C. Leyendecker Trading Card Factory Set

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Sealed factory set of The Art of J. C. Leyendecker Trading Cards!!!

This set has 50 cards plus a bonus insert card! Cards feature the most famous images of this world-reknown artist. In his heyday, Leyendecker was the most famous Post cover artist they have ever had. His first cover for the magazine was in 1899, before the cover became a miniature poster designed to attract the eye of a newsstand buyer. He returned in 1903 for a 40-year association in which he produced over 320 covers. His covers for the first issue of 1906 featured a winged cherub that was the predecessor of the "New Year's Baby" - a concept that still holds today. Each year, Leyendecker would do the "important" Post holiday covers: Easter, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Christmas, and New Years. I could reproduce a dozen of them here and you'd still only get a hint of how effective he was at producing that eye-catching image. Here are two: at right top from December 18, 1909 and right bottom from January 4, 1941 (The Post went to full-color covers in 1926). Issued in 1995 by 21st Century Archives, these cards are long out of print and highly collectable. Another fine collectible from Top Shelf Collectibles!


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