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Richard LloydThanks Max and you are right and thats a great pic..
I was tring to say that many food regional and minor league cards were NOT mass produced becuase they came from a small minor league town or attached to food products durning the baseball season..
FOr example, I am almost through with my article for potentially OLDCARDBOARD on the 1959/1960 Darigold farm SPOKANE indian baseball cards... (also, I was raised in Spokane) Spokane has a population around 100-200 thousand people but there is NO direct relationship with card production and city size in this case... The Darigold cards were glued to a 1-quart milk carton with a tab..Darigold was not selling there 1-quart milk so they came up with a TWIN-PACK that contained the baseball card.. I actually found and interviewed the GUY who GLUED them to the carton.. He was able to tell me the amount of milk they produced per week and through my research of the Spoksman review newspaper I was able to determine by the team roster,trades..etc.. how long the promotion went.. sooo, for Darigold in 1959 there was approx. 818 cards produced of EACH player!! I would think around 80% of the cards from the milk cartons were distroyed because not everyone kept the card..
given that, there is probably a pool of 175 cards that had a chance to survice 46 years till today...I would think less then 30-40 cards of each player exist today on average.. anyway.. the article is very in depth and these cards were only produced for 3 moneths unlike many
traditional tabaco or carmels that had a wider distribution across the country and for longer periods of time..
Best
DIck
PS: I have identified a total of 203 darigold cards from many collectors around the country.
PSS: MAx, do you have any extra Vancouver cap cards or know where I can get some????