[Joe_G.]

Tom, interesting data, thank you for sharing. I would be interested in the ratio of small to large cards for only those sets that had large cards. I also suspect a greater percentage of the large cards have been graded as they are a little more valuable. Your 10:1 ratio may become 5:1 and the actual number if we could combine graded + raw might be more like 7:1.

While Preferred Stock No. 1 certainly had a 20 count pack that the large cards were inserted in I'm not sure if the other brands did. Many of the other brands are only known as 10 count slide & shell (small cards). Can you share the results of your study for just N29/N43, and then combine all the sets that were issued in small and large?

Great stuff.

Also, I give zero credit to dating of any sets to third party graders. They simply follow the price guides. Many of these dates were guesses by our hobby pioneer's (Burdick etc.) during the early days of our hobby. They did a remarkable job cataloguing the sets but often fell short on the distribution dates. The only hope to get 3rd party graders to correct the dates would be to first correct the price guides. I know who to work with on the baseball side but don't know which non-sport guide is considered "The Source".