Well, here's another theory to screw with our heads. According to an old Beckett baseball collectibles book that I have the 1926 set consists of 70 'reruns' from 1925, 21 cards with the 1925 pictures but with the final line in the legend being "Ex. Sup. Co. U.S.A." and 37 entirely new cards. From what I can tell, the second grouping do not have boxes around their legends [Fewster is ID'd as one of the cards with a reused image and I've seen the 1926--it has no box around the legend]. According to the old Beckett. the only way to tell the reruns apart from the 1925s would be to compare the reruns to actual 1926s side by side for color differences. The 1925s are black and white, the 1926s are blue-gray, so the rerun 1925s should match the 1926 blue-grays. Now, whether that's correct or not I have no idea. I will have a look at what I have at home and see if there are discernable color differences with what I have.
Last edited by Exhibitman; 11-04-2011 at 02:53 PM.
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