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Posted By: jay behrens

The release of Leaf and Bowman cards is generally considered the start of the modern era. 1945 is a safe cut off as there is almost nothing issued during WW2.

Leon, I'm of the opinion that we would being doing more of a disservice to Burdick's work by trying to denote which were his and which are new designation. The designation nation would not be as "neat and clean" if you start adding letters or whatever to denote new additions.

Your idea runs into trouble with sets like e92 if we decide to split them up into e92-1, ets? Under your proposal, how would you handle that? Adding a letter because it's new designation would just confuse things even more and would make harder to sell that designation to collectors familiar with the issue. Making Dockman's e92-1, Crofts Candy e92-2, etc, is a much easier sell to collects than re92-1, re92-2, etc. Collectors will look at those designation and go "huh?".

Jay

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