DuPont Shoot Powders, Llewellin English Setter Champion Hunting Dogs. Outstanding mounted collection, the main portion depicts the 13 different unused postcards with multicolored designs based on paintings by Edmund Henry Osthaus, these depict the National Bird Dog Champions of 1896 and 1898-1910 -- all but one an English Setter, nine of these cards are accompanied by covers depicting the same design, all but one are printed on back and bearing Washington-Franklin stamps, some with enclosures (the four missing designs are not known on cover), also two additional covers for DuPont Powders, one with a scene of a boy learning to shoot and another with a brace of English Setters

EXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL AND RARE COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH SETTER DUPONT COVERS AND CARDS. A TRUE CONFLUENCE OF POSTAL HISTORY AND ART FOR THE DEDICATED CYNOPHILIST.

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