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Originally Posted by Al C.risafulli
Bob, this is one of the things that fascinates me about the set.
What's more, if you look at the BACKS of the cards, the low number series declare the cards as being one of a series of 288 cards. And the high number series declare each card being one of a series of 312!
This means that at first, Goudey planned a 48-card set, and then at some point decided to do 72 cards. Yet they only did 24, really, unless you subscribe to the belief that repeating the same 24 cards a second time (with cartoons added) was their plan all along, which I don't. There are WAY too many important players excluded from the set. For instance - why would they have not produced a card of Lou Gehrig or Chuck Klein, both of whom endorsed Goudey gum in 1934? There are lots of examples like that.
I could go on about this set and all its unanswered questions all day.
-Al
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Al,
And the fact that only the '33 Goudey set fits that 288 card set description is a real head scratcher. LOL
That is one of the great things about collecting such old sets. Trying to figure out what was going on behind the scenes. Great sets though.