I don't mean to cast aspersions on anyone's collecting focus and can understand the fascination with all the multifarious variations in this set, but it seems somewhat comical to me that what was probably the result of one of the Shorin brothers ordering the pressroom to just use an inferior cardstock to continue printing that number series until the regular white stock arrived from the supplier became a rare and valued "variation" half a century later. Again, don't mean to offend with this comment - it just strikes me as odd.
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