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Originally Posted by tbob
I thought I had the master set but in the last 10-15 years a few anomalies have popped up which appear to be 1/1 s. I don’t know if a ‘true’ master set will ever exist.
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Bob speaks the truth. About ten years ago I lucked into a team variation (the below Frank Smith) in a group lot auction of 3 on Ebay. I say lucked into because I was bidding on the lot for the other two cards, but when I received the cards I noticed that the team designation on the Smith was not the normal Chicago Americans, but instead Boston Americans. It is still the only one known to exist (it no longer exists in my hands, but I have a scan of it before it was slabbed into submission).
I think this set and the E121 American Caramel Series of 80 are the two more common Prewar sets that are still the most likely to offer new discoveries.
Brian