Hi Tim,
I'm not the expert here but I have talked to him (them) in the past about this issue. The 5 listed in the SDC are the only ones known, and I believe only 1 copy of each is known. Makes the $ amount listed in SCD pretty useless.
The best guess is that they were never issued to the public - otherwise, why would they be this rare? The back does feature a Seattle mail permit so they were apparently close to production at one point.
At the National (the last one in Los Angeles) I picked up a 1933 Minneapolis Millers card which is very similar to the Seattle Indians cards. I picked it up simply because of its similarity to the Seattle issue as I have little hope of every acquiring a Seattle one. It makes sense for Wheaties to have produced the Minneapolis cards as it also sponsored that team's radio broadcasts. However, Wheaties had no known association with Seattle, and given that Seattle was a very small market area it is a total mystery why these cards even exist.
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