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Originally Posted by ullmandds
my point is based on the surviving pop of graded e98 around the time of the BSF...the find practically doubled the pop of e98's.
Caramel cards are rare...and were likely printed in much smaller numbers than something like t206.
i believe the BSF contributed an extraordinarily large number of cards to the pop...most of the same color.
This is peculiar.
This is my point. I believe BOB is incorrect in his estimation of 25 examples/card. I remember more like close to 50 each of cobb and wagner.
And I believe 1000+ cards for one store is an extraordinarily large #. If every store got this quantity of cards...there'd be a ton more surviving examples for sure.
just my opinion.
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The population for graded E98s more than doubled since 2012. I posted the numbers even if you account for cards being resubmitted. There were more than 1400 cards in this find. We all know what Heritage graded. And I know someone who had been offered, and essentially passed on, the cards which the other family members held back.
I too think it is absurd to think that a local meat market in a small community would have been given that many cards to hand out. They would have been handing them out well past the retirement of most of those players.
More likely that the owner ended up with them sometime after 1910 by the printer or distributor who had these sitting around in storage.