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Posted By: Hankron

One problem that I have in assesing the distribution of the cards is that I don't know how many sock garters were in a typical box and, perhaps more important, how many sock garters a person needed in a given year (my socks stay up on their own). When I go to a store to buy a belt, I only need one and not a box of twenty. So, I don't know if it was normal or abnormal to buy an entire box of garters at a time. If it was normal to buy one garter at a time, the cards may have been distributed simularly to those 1948 Bowman Premiums ('Last to buy a pack, gets the premium').