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Originally Posted by oaks1912
None of the Baum cards are particularly scarce today. He was clearly high demand in the day, but likely a distribution issue for particular series' of cards. Some series of cards were only distributed in certain areas.
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As Mark said, the Collins-McCarthy company apparently distributed strangely so what may have been a "RAREY" in one part of town was not that in another part of town or city. For example I found a vintage collection of 1920's Zeenut cards several years ago and within the group I had only a few duplicate 1925's but of the 10-20 dupes in my group were several copies of Phillips and McCann, which in 1925 are VERY tough to find and I think even Mark needed them. Thus, the rest of California those cards were RAREY cards as described in the article but for whatever reason the area where the collection I had purchased were found they were apparently very common 1925's. Just funny distribution, there are other stories like that where a once rare card is found in quantity all of the sudden.
11-07-2020, 11:47 AM
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