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These are 1948 Topps Magic Photos. They were blank on the front when first taken out of the wrapper. By spitting on the wrapper and holding it to the card, the photo self-developed. (I'm getting this from the Krause Standard Catalog)

There were 19 baseball cards in a set of 252 cards. They are fairly obscure, but there are a few on eBay from a seller in the UK. Yours? The cards on eBay are listed as Hocus Focus, but they are Magic Photos. The Hocus Focus cards are from 1955 and 1956, and they say "Hocus Focus on the back. The Hocus Focus cards are much more difficult to find and more expensive than the Magic Photos.

In VG, the common Magic Photo cards book at $18, while the Cobb and Gehrig book at $80, with Ruth at $135.

Rick