Classic topic by a classic collector...and a nice guy.
I always thought the printing came in 2 waves, #s 1-72 and then the final 72 cards. I based this on looking at overall pops and those really tough numbers seem to mostly fall in the second group. I think they either a) produced the same number of all 144 card and dumped the second printing or they second printing was never as big as the first.
As Leon said, horrible, fragile stock on those 1914s so many were destroyed. We see a similar pattern in the pops of HOFers related to "commons" as there are a ton of Jax, Matty, Cobbs, etc but few of the Cadys, Pratt, and other no namers...they just got chucked.
CJ was also distributing other items as well at this time and creates another variable IMO. I really think that second series is a big part of all this.
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