1910 T218, Champions ✈ Early Aviators
On November 23, 1909, the Wright Brothers form million dollar corporation to manufacture airplanes.
Sometimes, you see tobacco cards that you cannot live without.
As a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot, these cards are fascinating to me.

I don’t often purchase non-baseball cards, but when I do, it’s gotta be a bad$ss vintage Jack Johnson card. Love this guy…

1910 T218 Champions, Honey Melody 🥊 World Welterweight Champion
You'd be hard pressed to find a sweeter name than Honey Mellody.
Mellody won the World Welterweight Championship on October 16, 1906, by defeating the legendary Barbados Joe Walcott in a fifteen-round decision.

His reign and fights helped elevate the welterweight division’s prestige at a time when heavier weight classes dominated public attention, paving the way for future stars.

He died at the young age of 35, in 1919, but his legacy remains as one of the early world champions whose career helped pave the way for others.

1910 T218 #60, Edward Payson Weston ⭐
Did you ever make a ridiculously low bid and win a card unexpectedly?
This is one of those cards for me.
Edward Payson Weston was widely regarded as the World's Greatest Pedestrian.
He was celebrated and became famous for his astonishing long-distance walking feats. He completed remarkable journeys, including walking from Portland, Maine, to Chicago in 30 days and from New York to San Francisco in 105 days. His endurance and showmanship made him a national celebrity and a pioneer of competitive walking.

1910 T218 Champions Arch Hoxsey Aviator.
This is a particularly scarce and historically significant card, capturing one of aviation's early daredevils at the dawn of powered flight. Issued by tobacco companies Mecca, Hassan, and Tolstoi, the T218 set celebrated notable figures of the time. Hoxsey, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, became famous for setting altitude records and thrilling crowds with death-defying stunts before his tragic death in 1910, before the release of this card.😳