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Posted By: davidcycleback

Al, if your panels are in high grade, that's a good deal. The panels vary widely in grade, with some
having water stains and a bullet hole or two.

There are also 1950s Topps and Bowman salesman samples, which are small panels of uncut finished cards. Salesmen
used these to promote the product to stores. The key is that the salesmen samples have company advertising
pasted across the back (they physically glued a paper add across the backs of the panel). The 1957 Topps
cards cut from the earlier mentions sheets have no such ads, just showing the normal card backs.