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Originally Posted by steve B
That's so incredibly wrong it's hard to even respond.
Collecting Tobacco and other cards was big enough in England that they had a national society in 1938, And had excellent and fairly comprehensive catalogs by the 1940's. Lots of catalogs some detailing the issues of a single manufacturer. Wills produced their first cards in 1896, and continued at least into the 1960's. (And may still produce cards? I'm not up on their modern stuff)
Their collecting culture is geared towards complete sets in very nice condition. Not difficult, as the sets are generally small, 50 cards.
And they were saved in huge quantities.
That's why they're inexpensive, there are still loads of very nice complete sets around.
The collecting seems to be more of a "collect everything" type like Burdick.
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+1
And yes please can we move soccer out of the testing forum???