Does anyone know where, if anywhere, to find total print runs of various pre-war sets. Aside from the grading company populations, I want to see the actual population estimates for all cards produced. Just a curiosity to calculate some of the true rarities of old editions.
I did find this for some of the Bowmans:
http://portasite.com/?page_id=4266 .
Would building up an estimate from retail sales organically be the only way to arrive at the numbers? I'm actually most interested in pre-war for this so might have to estimate packs of gum, tobacco or cigarettes produced.
Thanks.