The card shows Faber in a 1918 Sox uniform, so that might help narrow down the dating. Also it appears to have an IFS copyright symbol in the lower left; if so, it is likely not an Exhibit product. International Feature Service was an early Hearst entity that produced the w516 strip cards in 1920-21, although the copyright symbol on those is slightly different. This was around the same time the ESCO was getting into baseball cards. Maybe an early competitor?
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