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warshawlawFirst of all, I say a card is an item that is meant to display flat. I'd not give card status to flip books, for example. Ditto for booklets. Goodwin albums are darned nice. Darned nice albums, not darned nice cards.
Second, among flat items, if it isn't made of wood pulp to a significant degree (notice I cleverly did not say "paper" or "cardboard"), it isn't a card. That excludes coins, felts, blankets, leathers, and those shiny plastic pieces of **** that the modern collectors buy.
Third, if it is a flat and is made of wood pulp but had a different primary purpose, it isn't a card. This excludes tickets, stickers (sorry Charlie, Star-Cal made toys that are fun to collect, not cards), entire candy boxes (Darby) and photographs. Now that we've established that Darby's are not cards, kindly send all of your Darby's to me.
Finally, if it is a flat and it is made of wood pulp and it has a primary purpose to exist as a card, it is a card, whether it came in a pack, on the side of a box of candy, on a milk carton, or on the package wrapper for some really rank hot dogs, whether it came from a nice clean pack or had to be cut away from others (W cards), separated at the perforation (ARCO 1968 cards), shot out of an arcade machine (Exhibits), pulled from a container of poison (T cards), etc.
Wasn't that easy? Shouldn't I be king?