The early 81 Donruss were awful. The first shipment my local dealer got in had packs with 11 of the same card .. every pack. Not so bad for the one kid who got 11 Yaz cards, not good for his friend who got 11 checklists.
They sent those back.
The replacements were a lot better, but finding two of the same card was still a thing.
I don't think the wax of either Fleer or Donruss in 81 had a sequence. Donruss might have much later in the year, and it's possible Fleer had one. But that usually wasn't done with wax packs.
The cellos from Topps were sequenced by the people who opened loads of them. I don't recall when I started seeing ads offering to sell the info. Probably 81 or 82? I know I did the Coke/Brighams Red Sox in 82 when a friend got me a whole box. And that I'd gotten the idea from an ad. (Yaz was only on the inside of packs, and I wanted to know for sure which ones. )
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