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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

The Herps are an earlier set than the E121 Series of 80, but produced after the Holsum Bread (Type I set), and they date from the same time as the Standard Biscuit set that was also produced "between" these two sets. It would be logical then to infer that the Herps were probably produced as a set of 80 (as that is the # advertised on the backs of those with Standard Biscuit (D350-3). It is likely the checklist is Not complete in that 80 different players were produced, with several not making it through the years.

That being said it seems possible and likely that this set was a "printers proof" produced for the company to see what their cards would look like, and apparently was not taken to the next step of mass production for any kind of actual promotion. This is all speculative, but until more than one example of each card comes to light (or any card not from the initial find for that matter) this is my theory.
-Rhett

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