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Posted By: Hankron

I wish to point out that the scraps and similar little die-cuts that one will find (usually pasted into scrapbooks), were rarely issues singly, like trading cards. Usually, a little boy or girl would buy them from the toy store as pages, each page containing a variety of die-cuts and scraps. In the ealier days, the boy or girl would have to cut out by hand the little figures. By 1896, they were typically designed so that they could be punched out (press your thumb on the scrap and pop it out).