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Posted By: davidcycleback

By definition, premium means send away. Supplement means inclusion. If a magazine or newspaper print is a supplement, it was included with the publication. If a print is a premium you had to send away for it.

As with Ernest, I owned some Baseball Magazine Premiums with the mailing envelope. That doesn't automatically mean all were send away, but at least many were. Most of the premiums are too large to fit inside the magazine.

There were graphical Baseball Magazine inside covers that could be cut out from the magazine, but these are different things. The premiums are blank backed so are easy to distinguish from the cutouts.

Beyond BBM, there are cases where a print was issued both as a supplement as a premium. One included in the magazine, with an offer to send away for more.