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Originally Posted by nolemmings
It also included a pic of the Napoleon Lajoie “card” but it had the hands on hips pose found in the Mendelsohn flyer and the 1915 M-Unc set. The ad offered 100 cards to anyone who could get a new four-week subscription sold and 200 cards if two such subscribers were found– they needed to fill out the coupon/form and so did the kid who found them. The two ads appear to be identical. No indication of whether the backs had anything on them.
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Not sure if this is redundant to what you have said,Todd, about the "Mendelsohn flyer," but I assume you're talking about the one I consigned to an auction at the National some years ago that I'm sure you remember as serving as kind of the Rosetta Stone for these sets. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures of the inside of the flyer itself where it speaks to the manner of purchase and distribution of said sets with ads on the back, but I did copy the front and back as mailed that has cards depicted, including the Lajoie. I don't believe the strip of "cards" was not blank backed, but had printing from the contents of the flyer itself on the backside. Apparently, I scanned this in 2012, but I can't remember whether it was auctioned at the National in Baltimore that year or perhaps in Chicago the next year, but I didn't have the flyer very long., if that helps at all.