Card Art...The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This is just my opinion here, and to each his own.
I can't help noticing (I have in fact noticed for decades) that some card sets have truly beautiful artwork in the days before color photography became prevalent, and some, quite frankly, contain examples that are somewhat hideous. I like to think that the good Lord blessed me with exquisite taste, you, on the other hand, might think somewhat differently.
Here are some examples of what I would classify as "The Good". To me, these are as beautiful (perhaps even more so) as a color photograph, if that technology had existed when these cards were originally distributed, and were no doubt reproduced from actual photography:
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