"TRUE" population of a card

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I think you also need to factor in two additional things: I, like many collectors, have purchased pre-war cards/pins in slabbed holders and have broken them out because as a set collector, some sets I have are in mylar pages, all together. I know my completed tobacco sets (T205, 206, 207, 212, etc.) are all raw in mylar pages; and second, some collectors in order to get higher or better grades will crack the cards out and either re-submit them raw or cross them over to another grading company. Thus the numbers are skewed and may be too high for some tobacco and caramel cards. I have tried to have all my caramel graded and in slabs and for uniformity sake, have craceked out a lot of PSA and GAI holders and had them submitted to SGC for uniformity sake, plus I like their holders better aesthetically.