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Posted By: fkw

Paul, To me it almost looks like they might have came out of a machine in a single vertical strip and torn off one at a time and given to the kids (sort of like a roll of scotch tap). Maybe at a candy store or something? I have seen quite a few W501, W575-1-B, and W573 cards with the rough slightly angle cuts of the top and or bottom edges. The stock on all 3 sets is thin enough that they could have originally been in a roll of some kind.

I have a couple uncut strips of 10 (vertical) cards of W573's right now, and I had a W573 strip a few years back that was shipped to me rolled up just like I described and it seems to have been stored that way for a while as it didnt want to lay flat at all. You never know.