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Posted By: barrysloate

Excellent point Hal. It's quite possible that virtually no one in the country even knew they existed during their short run. Here's a good story for you: In the mid 1980's, I got a call from someone in Brooklyn who said his parents had died and when he went through their belongings he found a small stack of them in a box, about ten or so as I recall. I bought them all, but nearly every one of them was the same pose. I forget which but I know that a single card is much more common than all the others, so anyone who is familiar with the set could tell me which one it was. The only find of those I ever had but of course they came from Brooklyn (the seller happened to be white, but I really do think they were found mostly in the black neighborhoods). That gives you an idea of just how regionally they were distributed.