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Posted By: barrysloate

My friend Ted Zanidakis, who is the world's expert on 1949 Bowman and Leaf, and who is old enough to remember having bought packs in 1949, maintains that the Leaf set is not at all a 1948 set and that all the cards were released in early 1949. Regardless of the copyright date, you could not buy them in 1948. We haven't spoken about these in many years but I'm pretty sure that was his claim regarding the release date- time can elapse between a copyright date and the time it takes to print and get the cards into the stores (imagine obtaining a copyright in Dec 1948, as an example).