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Originally Posted by insidethewrapper
Jay: Just wondering . Why would a cigarette company spend all the money to produce a card ( production, printing, rent a studio, pay a photographer etc) and then only produce maybe 1-5 cards of that player ?
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The Old Judge cards that survive today are a tiny fraction of those that were originally produced. I don’t know how many of each card were made, but I’m sure it was quite a bit more than 1 to 5, even for scarce cards.
And by the way, OJs weren’t printed; they consisted of very thin albumen photographic prints glued to cardboard and then cut into individual cards. The OJ book has a section on how they were produced.