The promo card was released in many other North American cities besides St. Louis and Brooklyn. Shaun’s exhaustive research in the thread previously referenced includes all the evidence of that. The fact that it wasn’t available in every single US city doesn’t make it a regional issue. At worst it was a multi-regional issue. The idea that the lay collector believes that the Leaf is his RC, largely because that’s what they’ve been spoon fed that as fact, is ignoring the reality that the distribution of the Bond Bread was far more widespread than previously believed. As I mentioned before, you could pick up the 1947 Bond Bread Jackie portrait w/ facsimile in PSA 6 for under $1k forever until the research Shaun provided was shared and basically overnight it became a $7-8k card because of it.
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