I've handled several Caramelo de Portivo sets and I think they are pretty neat, considering they were made on poor paper stock and are really thin and fragile. Even the album is not much higher quality than newspaper stock, and given the heat and humidity in Cuba, high grade sets are hard to come by. Many near complete sets of 99 or fewer show up, but they are rarely complete due to card #73 Napoleon Reyes, which was severely short printed. That one may be worth the other 99 cards combined. I also like the team insignia cards, as they are the only ones that are in color (I assume they were made that way although they could have been hand colored after the fact).
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