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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

Richard, of the cards you mention , Hager does list the 1950 Drake's Cakes set at R-3 (10,000-25,000 cards) & the 1954 Dan Dee Potato Chip set at R-2 (2500-10,000 cards), but none of the others. NM-M price listed for the 36 card Darke's set was $8000 with a vg set listed at $1600. The 29 card Dan Dee set figures were $13,000 NM-M & $3600 in vg.

Almost half the book is taken up with post-WW II Topps, Bowman, Donruss, etc. He estimated that there were about 1500 different sets issued between 1886 & 1991, the date of publication. He included about 300 sets in the 500+ page book .