Thanks Jeff....John....Ty....for the nice compliments.
John, to your question......
"I have to ask, when you were buying the 48 cards, did you leave the Leaf packs on the shelf ?"
In my neighborhood in 1948, the LEAF Gum cards were Pirates and Boxing. Lots of them, but very few FB cards.
Early in the Spring of 1949, LEAF BB cards were available (tons of these cards). Followed by LEAF FB in the Fall.
Also in 1948, BOWMAN cards were plentiful in my neighborhood....Movie Stars, BB, Basket Ball, and FB (with the
exception of the "divide by 3" cards).
When I recovered my original collection from my youth (from my folks home in 1977), all of this became evident.
TED Z
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