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davidcycebackI've had the 1930s Diamond Matchbook football, hockey and baseball matchbooks and liked them all. The hockey are about identical in design than the football, while the baseball come in a variety of colors. They all seem to be gaining in popularity as time goes by.
Also, salesman samples are generally much rarer than proofs. I wouldn't doubt you could find proofs for some of these matchbooks. You can find proofs for a lot of old trading cards and similar ephemera.
With the limited info I have, I would say chances are you have an unfinished item that somehow got out of the printers (playing the odds). Then the most likely would be it's a proof. Even an unfinished item with no folds would probably have a premium in value over the regular matchbook. With sportscards, collectors can find various types of printer's errors and unfinished cards, usually taken out of the printers by workers and perhaps given to the kids, and these can get a premium at sale when the cards are Pre-WWII.