Thanks alot!! I guess I never saw the "suitable for framing" language. Since Mendelsohn advertised sheets in a frame, without glass, this clearly did not come shipped from him. He didn't advertise non-framed sheets as such, although it seems logical he would sell them. Shipped rolled or flat--who knows?
There were a good dozen or more different ads in the Examiner for March and April. One showed Thorpe among others. Others listed Tinker as a shortstop when the card has him as mgr. One identifies Cobb as one of the cards you would receive, when he wasn't even in m101-5. But the most interesting was the first one you linked--it featured a "card" of Matty that never made the set, and it appears to be the same photo used in Mendelsohn's prototype or aborted set from 1917 (I'll have to review my notes). Great resource for sure--thanks again!!
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