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EricI saw this Ebay auction as well. This auction raises a great question, what is the legitimate age of the item? It would be great to get the sellers point of view and historical knowledge on the sheet, as he stated quite clearly that he purchased the sheets straight from the original producer.
This wouldn't be the first time a card set was produced in the 1950's-1960's, and was assumed to be from an earlier time period. Many prints/reprints have fooled generations of collectors, one coming to mind is a rarely seen reproduction of 1933 Goudey cards, reportedly done in the 1960's. The cards were reportedly produced in the early 60's by a collector looking to replacate the exact look and feel of the original issue. One of the only tells to differenciate the two is the stock of cardboard used, which was a bit lighter in weight, weaker, and darker in color. Otherwise, the same dot-matrix style printing was used, as was the original coloring palette.
A repint or regular issue made during the 1960's or earlier, has had a great deal of time to age naturally, to make it look and feel like a vintage card. This can make it very difficult to place a production year on uncataloged issues featuring vintage players, especially if an issue was made to look vintage at the time, and were made using period machinery/techniques to produce the cards.
Glen, maybe try and ask the seller to post his comments. I'd be interested to hear what he has to say.