I understand the first bunch of coupons, and that Cobb/Cobb card look like T206s. The former is on thin paper and I'm satisfied it doesn't belong bunched with T206s. Similarly, the Cobb card has a glossy front, it doesn't belong in with T206s either. Neither are T206s.
Might as well haggle about the Lajoie Goudey card. It's numbered 106 so it fits into that gap that was in the 1933 issue. I used to think it was a 1933 card. But there were 239 different cards printed for that 1933 set. They skipped #106. Kids wrote in, and some were mailed a card #106 of Napoleon Lajoie, who wasn't even playing then. The background on the card is consistent with 1934 cards. The card is from 1934. I'm now content with the idea that the 1933 Goudey set is complete at 239 cards. And that card #106 is a nice card to have, but isn't part of the 1933 set. Golly, if they printed card #241 today, would that also make it part of the 1933 set? No.
Still, as long as folks are cogitating about it all, that's a good thing. No matter which camp of thought they embrace. Hang in there.
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