Good points all. A copyright date is the date of creation of the image, not the date the object using the image was created. The copyright in this case is scratched into the negative of the image, which is why it is white on the field of the image. The PC is made using the image and other artwork. It had to be made around 1907 at the earliest because it would not have been a legal PC before that time, and obviously it was made before the post-date. Other than that, you cannot pin down any specifics from the item itself. You cannot simply assume that production ended when Johnson left the team; it may well have continued after they realized what a phenom he was.
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