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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
I answered your question in another thread. Not sure I nailed it, but these are well known to the hobby. I don't know if I'd call them "premiums," which to me are byproducts of the promotion of other things. I think these were just issued on their own, and there should be a checklist somewhere.
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I don't think that the checklist for this set will ever really be complete. They are like McCarthy postcards, uncatalogued examples (if somebody is even keeping track of known players) show up from time to time.
I had the original artwork used to create these photos. The company that did them in the 1940's would use news service photos and then paint the names onto them to create the final product. Like the N173 cabinets, not everybody in the set was a star, there were a lot of "common" players so my guess is that the stars are easier to find as people would have ordered them and lesser players are going to be more scarce.