Grade or Not

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Originally Posted by Volod

Yeah, there were one-cent packs. I never saw a one-cent pack in the year of issue - as an eight-year-old in a small town in upstate NY. Maybe the small packs were sold in large cities, but not sure why that would have been the case. So, as a kid collector, I found only nickel packs. I seem to recall the slab of gum on top and perhaps a thin piece of wax paper buffering the gum from the cards, which were all together below. Strange, the things the mind retains for seventy years, while stuff from last week seems to evaporate easily.

Just based on price guide quotes for wrapper value, it appears that the one cent wrappers are more scarce than the five cent wrappers. So, although I would assume that every card in the once cent wrapper could have staining, there still leaves a mystery as to why so many cards are stained...since only 20% of the cards in the five card packs would have been directly in contact with the back of the back.

And I don't think I've seen any cards with noticeable gum stains on the front...so that wax paper must have worked