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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Frank, I have owned both cards with no # at one time, I kept the Waner (I liked it better) and sold off the Vance. I too have probably seen one or two more Waners without the #, but in all reality they are probably equal in rarity. I have definately seen more of the two players with the # than without. By the way, what color is your Vance, mine was a dark greenish (same color as the Waner below), it could be that the different colors were produced at the same time, and this color had the #'s knocked off. I have seen the original art for these cards, and if I remember right the #'s were merely stickers on the picture (often missing over the years on the art but they left a little mark).

This set (as was described by another poster recently) has many nuances and subtle changes in layout of photo, then there are the cards with plays at the top (only the top cards in the strip of 3), those with the "winning" color stripes on back, and finally the wide variety of colors (the most common being the sepia).

Definatley one of the most interesting of the true "strip cards"
-Rhett