September pick ups

[Exhibitman]

I collect the AO set. The Brock looks like it was never glued into a game piece. If it is unperforated it may be an unfinished item cut from a sheet. The cards were glued down along all four sides [the white] to each other face to face so the sweepstakes player would have to tear open the packet to see whether or not he won. I saw a bunch of the unopened packets some years ago. That's why the cards are typically found with border damage from glue overspill, and why there are ten cards in the set that are just about impossible to find--they were the winning pieces and were SP and likely redeemed when they were pulled. I've only seen one of the SP cards ever offered and it appears to have been cut out of a packet at a much later date.