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Originally Posted by jerseygary
Nice bit of research! Just for the heck of it, did you find how much a boy's suit cost? It would be interesting to calculate what the cost would be in today's money.
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Gary, the "Gimbel Special Suits" were $3.95, and the "Adamant 2-Pant Suits" were $5.00. About the same as now if you move the decimal points. 
Leon, I do not believe the three backs reflected the three locations. The block-lettered Gimbels you posted, both large and small, appear to be limited to cards #1-20 and are all lined up with m101-5, as far as I know anyway. Cards #21-200 are slanted or italicized and match up with m101-4. Each series of cards was apparently first available on a Saturday, but I don't know if or why you couldn't get them the other days as well. I might have thought they underestimated demand and had a short supply for the first day, thus explaining the scarcity of the block-lettered low numbers, but Series 1 was offered again in week two and every week thereafter--apparently only series 2 eventually sold out. For every question answered it seems a new one arises.
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