Capturing Another Original 1887 Card from my Want List!

My constant quest to complete sets continues with today's mail day courtesy of an eBay auction I won recently.  We are heading all the way back to the 1800s once again as I continue to try and build some original Allen & Ginter sets (which is kind of my only choice since Topps keeps delaying it's modern incarnation of the Allen & Ginter set).

Anyhow, I was able to nab my 47th (out of 58 total) card from the 1887 Allen & Ginter Flags of All Nations set.

That's the country flag of Cuba - and while it's not a rare card as far as I know, the card had proven to be fairly elusive for me up until recently!  

As I said, I'm now at 47/58 total cards with only the following cards remaining to be captured:

Allen & Ginter Flags of All Nations (N9) Wants:

• Austria (var:  plain background)
• Austria (var:  "common fancy" printed background)
• Belgium (var: "common fancy" printed background) SP
• France (var: plain background)
• Holland (var:  plain background)
• Japan (var: plain background)
• Papal Standard (var: Papal Standard title)
• Roumania SP
• United States
• Uruguay

Note:  I'm not concerning myself with the various nameplate variations (on the front or back), I'm only chasing after the various image variations - I gotta draw the proverbial line somewhere, after all!

I'm absolutely loving trying to build some of these super old Allen & Ginter sets - and I can't believe how great the cards look all these years later - such quality printing that it's held up after over a century of sitting around (probably in attics or basements for much of that time).  I kind of doubt today's cards (I'm looking at you, Chrome) will hold up that well for the next 100 years!