Ted,
I have not bought any from outside of the country that I know of, but I have the same "export" pack that you showed. There are other Old Judge packs that look almost identical that do say they were packed expressly for export. Perhaps only non-baseball were put in the export packs. Or perhaps the family of your English connection just through away the baseball players.
JimB
P.S. I know of people who have picked up N28s from folks in England.
PPS. I am not sure why I can't make this scan bigger.