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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
I took my information from Mueller's article, which he presumably took from the credited Dan Mabey book on the '61 Post set. He says, "the errors were corrected in a second printing that allowed collectors to send in for 10-card team sheets that were separated by perforations." I assume they didn't have the official team nickname yet, or, as you say, why wouldn't they have printed that, instead of the * and the note of "former Washington Senators." And perhaps the "Minnesota" variation came only on the send-away team sets, which from my box Mabey seems to be in error about those only being available from the second printing of the cereal boxes. That offer is available on mine, which is supposed to be a first printing with "Minneapolis," so maybe there was only one printing of the boxes, and the "Minnesota" correction was made in time to send out with the the perforated team sets. I guess the test would be whether there are any non-perforated Twins cards with "Minnesota" instead of "Minneapolis." I love this geeky stuff. And yes, Allison should have been pictured in the dictionary to illustrate the word "hunk." For D.C. fans, he was Frank Howard before Frank Howard!
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It is my understanding that every Twins card printed on a box said "Minneapolis" and every Twins card printed on the company sheet said "Minnesota". I don't believe there are any exceptions to that.
As for complete boxes, there are many collectors on this website who specialize in Post Cereal and Jell-o cards, and they have extensive collections of boxes and panels. Unfortunately for me, my collection is pretty weak in that stuff.
I expect that many of those advanced collectors will chime in, and show some of the amazing stuff that they have.