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1942 Modern Airplanes, Series C
(T-87C)
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville Kentucky, USA
Title: Modern Airplanes, Series C
American Card Catalog Number: T87C
Issued by: Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville Kentucky, USA
Packaged with: Wings Cigarettes
No. of Cards: 50
Numbering: 1 to 50
Dimensions: 21/2 × 125/32
Circa: 1942
Skytamer Note
This tiny T87 card set series, has some of the highest quality artwork that we have ever seen on any of the Airplane Trade Card sets.
Overview
During the early years of World War II, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky issued four 50-card series of airplane collector cards. The cards were packed with WINGS Cigarettes and were commonly referred to as Wings Cigarette Cards
rather than their actual series titles. The fronts of the cards featured artwork of an Official Photograph of an aircraft. The reverse of the cards included a brief narrative about the aircraft, the aircraft name, card number, and advertising copy. The overall American Card Catalog Number for this series is T87. The following subsets were included in the series.
Modern American Airplanes.This subset has 51 cards, which includes the #34
Sparton Executivenerror card. This subset is commonly known as the
No Letter Series.
Modern American Airplanes, Series A.This 50-card subset used the same artwork as the T87
No Letter Seriesand corrected the #34 typo card.
Modern Airplanes, Series B.. This 50-card subset included American, Canadian and British aircraft.
Modern Airplanes, Series C.This final 50-card subset included American, Norwegian, Canadian, British, and Cuban aircraft.
Image-Guide
| 1942 Wings - Modern Airplanes (T87C) Wings Cigarettes, 50 Airplane Cards ORIGINAL SCANS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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50
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Album Image-Guide
Checklist
The T87C Wings Cigarettes "Modern Airplanes, Series C" Checklist page may be downloaded by clicking the "Download Series Checklist Here" graphic below. This document is presented as an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format document. The T87C "Checklist" shows the front and back of a typical card, the basic T87C Series C card information, a listing of all the known cards in the series.
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