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Todd SchultzHal you are certainly passionate, but call me skeptical on your theory.
I think the sale in lots of 12 and 100 only of the same card argues that they were not intended, at least by the language on the card you scanned, for direct sale or distribution to the public.
I believe they were sold by a sporting goods wholesaler to its retailers, who could then give them away to their customers. I would wager that you had to have placed some type of sporting goods order to even qualify as being part of "the trade"; if so, your extension of P&S selling to bakeries and other industries seems far fetched.
How is this really different from what was done by Rawlings, Wilson and MacGregor in the 50's and 60's?
Edited to add : damn phone call kept this from being posted 10 minutes earlier. I agree with some of the preceding points made in the interim