The Delehanty does have the overprint and is on the heavy gray stock. I think the gray stocked ones probably came off some type of packaging that the product came in. If Brian has thin ones with the Type 2 fonts they may be ad pieces. Further I think there were different issuers/users of the cards. Some of the blank backs have different text layouts at the bottom, versus series of 150 backs and may have actually been printed in 1903 or 1904( I would have to check team changes to confirm the year). And it's possible ALL of the overprints were redemptions and stamped at the same time. They all run they same direction and many have wet print transfer from the back stamp to the fronts as they were stacked.
There are so few cards and so many differences, many possibilities exist.
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