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Posted By: Peter Thomas

Although I am a little younger than Ted, I also clearly remenber collecting these cards in 1949. I was in the second grade and on the way to and from school would go to Cashman's store to get my Leaf cards - had a tolerant teacher who put up with the cards - Miss Mahoney. The area we lived in 15 miles from Boston was in a post war building boom, although our house had been built just before the war began and the developement stopped during the war and resumed shortly after the war ended. I could always find pop bottles at the construction sites and turn them into Leafs at Cashman's. I had my small bedroom decorated with these cards scotch taped to the walls. I loved the cards which were comic book like in appearance. When we moved my mother carefully removed the cards and put them away. A year ago I had all of these cards graded 1 to 3 depending on the degree of tape stain the cards look very nice, sharp corners and clean backs. There are a high percentage of Boston cards, but also many short prints that were supposidly distributed in the midwest. Maybe Mr. Cashman ordered more cards late in the year for the kids in our collecting mad neighborhood. About 15 years ago I started to collect the cards again and now have a compete set (100 cards)except for the Peterson red cap vairation. These cards seem similar in appearance to many of the secondary sets of the teens and the bright colors like many E cards. Are they vintage? I'm not sure, but at my age they sure feel like it as many of them have been in my possession for 56 years.