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Originally Posted by jjbond

To muddy the waters, I've been playing around in the Japanese baseball card world for the past year or so. There it seems a good half of the cards on the market had originally been given out as a sheet of 2, 4, 8, or more, and were later cut apart decades ago by kids.

Here's what you're talking about. This display would be at the store, and the "winner" cards would be removed from this sheet. This sheet only has 2 card (right) and 4 card (left) panels left, but the top half would have held two full panels of 16 cards as the grand prize.

Here's the auction description...
"Menko card uncut panels were often attached to display sheets by the manufacturer. These sheets generally hung in a dagashiya or candy store. Single menko cards were typically sold in the store in small hanging bundles (or taba). When a purchaser drew a card from a hanging bundle with a special printed number on the back, he or she became eligible to select a group of uncut cards from a display sheet.

In this case, first prize winners selected an uncut 16 card sheet. Second prize winners won a four card panel, while third prize winners selected an uncut pair. Uncut card sheets and panels were mounted to display sheets with a small amount of adhesive. The actual display sheets were made of newspaper stock and thrown away after the prize cards were removed. Due to their flimsy nature and the practice of card removal, very few intact manufacturer's display sheets have survived to the present day.

We are pleased to be able to offer one of these seldom seen original displays, complete with actual cards as issued by the manufacturer. This display contains a total of 36 JCM 11 cards (A complete set consists of 28 cards). Only the second and third prize winning cards are included on this sheet. The first prize sheets must have been separated from the sheet at some point.

Hall of Famers included on this sheet are Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima, Isao Harimoto (2 cards), Katsuya Nomura (2 cards), Futoshi Nakanishi (2 cards), Shinichi Eto (2 cards), Kazuhiro Yamauchi and Yasumitsu Toyoda. Also Isao Shibata (Meikyukai) and American Jim Marshall."


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