Note: experience and comments are based on research of the Boston Red Sox only
The Red Sox Photo packs from the initial 1940 set to the 1954 set are fairly straight forward. There were many years of duplicate photos (i.e. 1946 Sox and 1947 Sox used the exact photos, just varied in a few players added or removed).
The real challenge starts on the Team photos that started in 1957 with the "Jay Publishing-like" and "Jay Publishing" photos. The Red Sox at this point started keeping their sets with "real-time" players, often releasing 2, 3, 5 different photo sets in a single season. Again the individual player photos rarely ever changed, but the pack of 12-photos during these years can be vastly different. I believe I have 6 different 12-photo variations of the 1960 Jay Publishing Red Sox set alone.
(Hate being a variation guy; costs me too much money)
Dave
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