I will defer to others with more expertise on N172s but I believe this item might date to the c. 1920s. At that time, repros of the N172s were made from the original negatives. In fact, as I recall, there were uncut sheets of entire teams generated, and I believe each player image might have been cabinet size.
Whether you wasted your money is a subjective determination. You have something very old and interesting, only not dating to the 1880s. The price you paid IMO was not unreasonable.
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