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Originally Posted by akleinb611
Going strictly from memory, I second the observation that the later series rack packs had two blisters of one series and the third one featured the next series. I'll go further and state that a possible reason for the notable scarcity of the final series (series 6, I believe) is that I can remember the high number cards being ONLY available as the third capsule of series 5 rack packs. I do NOT recall ever seeing 1972 high number cards in either a wax pack or a cello. Note that I lived in New York City, so we pretty much always got full distribution of high number cards. Is it possible that high numbers for 1972 were exclusive to one-third of late summer rack packs?  |
I probably bought more cards as a Nassau County (Long Island) kid in 1971 and 1972 than any other years and it was always a mix of vending, wax, cello and raks for me, but never trays (never saw 'em). I definitely had high numbers in both years as a wee lad. I will say that when I was a part time dealer in the late 80's in the same general geographic area, the 72 highs were regarded among my fellow dealers as the toughest of the 1970-73's. So maybe they were just not as robustly distributed as in prior years?