I do know that the original eight were shipped with the borderless blank backed "photo" cards, as shown in this ad. I have only seen that version used for the first eight, and of course they did change over to the black bordered stat back version for those eight fairly soon in the run.
I didn't include it in the photo, but I think the McCovey we have almost looks like it had a manufacturing mark on the bottom, but then was melted or soldered over to remove it. The bottom looked very strange.
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