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Brian C.I rarely post in this section of the board, but I thought I'd add my two cents. I don't collect strip cards much, but they are significant in that during their period of issue, kids had fewer options for obtaining cardboard pictures of baseball players. Some strip card issues contain important images, as with the W516-1 card showing Babe Ruth pitching left handed and identifying him as a pitcher for the Yankees. Some strip cards contain cartoonish figures, but others look terrific and have dynamic (even psychadelic) colors, like the W515 set. As with all early baseball issues, it is only a matter of time before the market catches up with them. This is particularly so as compiling complete sets gets more difficult with the passage of time, and other cards get expensive for most collectors.