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Posted By: JimB

Though the E94 set has traditionally been associated with the George Close Candy company due to the rare overprints advertising various George Close products, it is not at all clear that the set was produced for them. It actually seems to have been an anonymous set, like E101 and E102, that may well have been distributed with a lot of different company products and George Close was the only one to happen to stamp the backs of theirs. The overprint examples of E94s make up an extremely small number of the actual E94s extant. My guess is that they constitute less than 1% of the total population of E94s based on my unscientific observations. So though George Close company was from Boston, the cards themselves may have been printed elsewhere and made available to a number of different sellers.
JimB