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Posted By: identify7

Joe: The ad is not part of the card, but it is there. The Wheaties ad below Gehrig's picture and frame is simply part of the box. It is clearly spatially associated with the card, but is it a part necessary to make the card complete?

Well, for the answer to this question I must defer to the Chief of the Slab Police. Please accept him as the ultimate authority. It frees you from having to think or make choices on your own; plus it provides an alternate authority figure who you can blame for everything in card collecting which you do not like.

He accepts this status, because you pay him handsomely for the reverence and abuse which you give to him.