Posted By:
Bill CornellLeon-
I believe the Miller cards came with gum and the company was a competitor of Goudey's.
Those Depression-era companies were a stingy bunch: as is well-known now, US Caramel (another Boston company) and George Miller both issued sets that were virtually impossible to complete because they withheld one card, Lindstrom in the US Caramel set and Andrews in the Miller set. US Caramel made a practice of this "teaser" marketing - their 1932 Presidents set offered a box of chocolates to anyone who completed the set, but they made only a couple of McKinley. A complete set of these cards sold for over 10K in late 2000.
Nowadays, this kind of semi-fraud would wind up as complaints at the BBB and/or with state attorneys general... in those days, you had to lump it.
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