Are Any of You Knowlegeable of "Parade Sportive" Photos?

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Posted By: Paul

I've had a Jackie Robinson from the Parade Sportive set for many years. Just yesterday, I picked up an Al Campanis. The designs of the two cards are quite different. The Jackie Robinson is taller and very slightly narrower than the Al Campanis. The Robinson has an ad at the bottom, and the Campanis doesn't. The text underneath the "Parade Sportive" name at the top is different on the two cards. Also, the stock of the Campanis is a little yellower than the stock of the Robinson (possibly just due to age).

Do any of you know if the pictures were issued in these two different styles? At first, I thought the ad was cut off of the Campanis. But the Campanis is too large for that. It's smaller than the Robinson, but not that much smaller. Also, to complicate things further, the Robinson pictured in the Standard Catalog has no ad at the bottom. I can't tell whether it has the same text at the top as my Robinson or the same text as the Campanis.

Any help would be appreciated. I've posted scans below. (Unfortunately, my scanner has somehow normalized the two scans so that they both appear to be the same height -- they're not.) Ignore the extra paper on the right border of the Robinson. It's just an extra piece of paper.