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Al C.risafulliThere are also people on this board who know everything in the world about E121s and similar cards, and none of them have chimed in on this thread yet. Although I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, I am not going to call myself an expert and potentially wreck a guy's sale on a card when I don't really know what I'm talking about.
That said, I do collect the Henry Johnson Confectioners cards. My opinion is that some collectors try and make a distinction between E121s and W575-1s, and they base that distinction solely on what's printed on the back of the card. Henry Johnsons, however, are not cut the same way as normal W575-1s - to me, they're clearly machine cut. My theory is that the cards are actually machine-cut, blank-backed E121s with a hand stamp on the back.
If that's the case, it's entirely logical that a blank-backed E121 would exist. And I would trust Brian's judgement on that over most, given that he actually knows what he's talking about.
-Al