Carreras Set of L25 Famous Escapes1926

Carreras1926 series of Famous Escapes, the large size printing, is our November ‘Set ofThe Month’. Of the incidents graphically depicted on these cards no fewer thanthree are devoted to the daring escapes of the resourceful thief Jack Sheppard fromNewgate Prison. Among other celebrated ‘disappearing acts’ are those of BonnyPrince Charlie after Culloden, Mary Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle, KingCharles after the Battle of Worcester, a mass breakout by 28 prisoners whotunnelled their way our of a Paris prison, William Tell, Napoleon III and LadyArabella Stuart, wife of William Seymour, who escaped from house-arrest after being detained owing to a possibleclaim to the throne of England. Probably the most famous of all is WinstonChurchill gaining his freedom from a Boer prison by scaling the wall andhitching a ride beneath sacks of wool on a goods train. (Note the nature of theglaze-coating on these cards means that they are slightly concave).

This set of L25 Famous Escapes issued by Carreras in1926 in very good condition is catalogued at £35.00

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