You are soooo right about Jim Lansford. A few people have been writing for a while that the whole "the first and last card of a set are more valuable" is a myth as grading statistics don't often indicate this. A different theory, one I first read about in the Nearmint Vintage Football Card Blog, is that those cards on the edges and corners of the uncut sheets for a set were more likely to be damaged during production and therefore more scarce in high grade.
Any thoughts by anyone on this theory?
jeff
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