Hobby literature is extremely non-committal when it comes to the question of whether the 1959 set was just difficult or literally impossible to complete back then without writing to Fleer.
I offer what I believe to be a conclusive answer in my newest post to the SABR Baseball Cards Research Committee blog.
https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2019/...ystery-solved/
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