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Originally Posted by Seven
Rather than creating my own thread, I figured it would be more prudent to post it here. Brian or frankly anyone, feel free to chime in/educate me.
I'm fascinated by the 1939 Goudey Premiums set. It was clearly produced at nearly the end of the road of the Goudey Gum Company. I know the stock they were produced on were paper thin. What type of packs were they inserted into? What was the logic behind the players they chose for the set?
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The typical way that the “premiums” were distributed with baseball and non-sports gum back during the 1930-40’s was more of a point of sale feature where the jobber would be sent a box with gum separate from the picture. They would get maybe 50-100 pieces of penny gum and a stack of the photos and for 1-cent you got a piece of gum and (depending on the retailer) either were handed a picture at random or if you were lucky you got to choose the player/subject.
There is little doubt that this is how 1939 Goudey cards were distributed.