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Old 02-12-2025, 06:26 PM
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Unfortunately for researchers, this document was cut up and at least partially destroyed.

Several pages were recently sold (here's one https://www.cleansweepauctions.com/item-847203/ - I was not a bidder. The listing doesn't state it, but this is T225-1 and it is from 1909, not 1910), and some had the cards soaked out and sold without the pages. At least some of those pages with the cards still attached were partially destroyed before sale - for example, the T225 proofs page has the Goodman completely missing that we could see when the book first sold. The page has its slot with the damage from the back of the card being ripped out still attached.

I hope the pages without cards that had production information or other details were not just thrown in the trash, but it appears unlikely that everything survives now and will ever be fully shown. I was hoping this resource would be photographed or documented before its inevitable destruction for dollars, but usually these things are scattered or destroyed before any effort to document.

Thank you to those who let me know when these came up for sale, kept their eyes open and contributed to the subsequent research and production data analysis the pages we have seen have enabled. Presumably other pages, or the cards soaked/ripped out of them, will crop up and may give us more information.
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