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Posted By: Hal Lewis

There is NO DIFFERENCE between the Koester card and a 1922 E121 blank-backed card...

so there is NO WAY to tell whether a card comes one set or the other (as long as the player is on one of the NY teams that are in the Koester set).

I believe that the Koester set is a SUB-set of the 1922 E121 set.

I don't think there is ANY WAY that a local NY bakery designed their own cards...

and then a NATIONAL candy company just "happened" to issue identical copies of those cards a few months later, along with cards from every other team.

In other words, whoever PRINTED the cards for Koester was undoubtedly also printing the cards for American Caramel at the same time.