Posted By:
Frank WakefieldGreat info, Ted, thanks.
What Goudey did with the Indian card set is even more manipulative... kids went nuts chasing those cards. We old kids go nuts today. Even now, to understand it, you have to have the information on the prinings spread out in front of you, half an hour to focus, and no phone calls or spousal interruptions.
And there is National Chicle's Sky Birds set, a set of first 44 cards then 144 cards, but there are only 108.
It is why the 2004 Topps Cracker Jack set has shortprints and variations... I kinda liked that, it is the only new thing I've fooled with. I long for the days when the cards came out in series, and the last couple of series at the end of the year were short printed a bit.