Albert Einstein Josetti cigarette #1

Description

Graded by PSA as Excellent+ 5.5. It is extremely rare to find this card in excellent condition.
The Albert Einstein 1928 Josetti card depicts the Nobel prize-winning physicist, featuring a classic color portrait of Albert Einstein on the front and brief German biography on the back. This German cigarette set cast Einstein amidst a cast of characters including fellow physicist Max Planck, after Lon Chaney, and boxer Max Schmeling.
Following his Nobel Prize in physics in 1921 for discovering the photoelectric effect, the same year he first visited the United States of America, where he wrote in his diary "What strikes a visitor is the joyous, positive attitude to life ... The American is friendly, self-confident, optimistic, and without envy."
Albert Einstein was instrumental in starting the nuclear weapons program in the United States with a letter sent to FDR explaining that the Germans had already started such a program. Little did he know that the United States nuclear weapons program would be the final event of World War II.
Five years after this set of cards were created, in 1933, Albert Einstein emigrated to the United States as Adolf Hitler enacted the Enabling Act, giving him the power as Germany's new dictator.