Posted By:
barry arnoldgreat thread, Ted et al.
those Russell cards are beauts.
I agree with Prof.Blumenthal that your 2nd scenario of Russell keeping the first Doyle and relegating all subsequent examples to a duplicate pile makes the most sense.
I still remember my boyhood collecting days from the early 60's when I did just that.
Duplicates only mattered as barter material---and bike spoke noise.
all the best,
barry