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Posted By: dennis

in the post war side dave h. posted a link to an article in SCD written by george verchek about irv lerner. i cut and pasted the reference mr. lerner made to the 1941 play ball set.
"Irv told me about the 1942 Play Balls. I thought, wait a minute Irv, there was no such thing unless you are talking about some collector issues. I was wrong again, according to Lerner.
He said that the higher numbers of the 1941 set were actually printed in 1942 and the rest of the set was reprinted at the same time. If you look at the back bottom left corner of the Play Balls, some low-numbered cards will have the copyright shown as © 1941 and others will be just ©. The ©-only versions are from the 1942 printing and include all the higher numbers.The highest number I found in my collection with the © 1941 version was No. 42 of the 72 cards issued"

after reading this interesting story i looked at my 1941 play balls and the highest # in my collection w/the 1941 copyrite was #23.

does anyone have a play ball with a 1941 copyrite after # 48?



back has 1940 stts in the write-up