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[Gorditadogg]

Brian, this is not official, but I think you just beat BobC's record for longest post.

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[ullmandds]

interesting but the production numbers are still pure conjecture. there appears to be an endless supply of fish and flags of all nations cards...but not so many baseball caramel cards. I can't imagine the fish/flags were so precious they survived the paper drives/extinction over baseball cards?

comparing non sport tobacco production to caramel baseball is apples to oranges imho.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

interesting but the production numbers are still pure conjecture. there appears to be an endless supply of fish and flags of all nations cards...but not so many baseball caramel cards. I can't imagine the fish/flags were so precious they survived the paper drives/extinction over baseball cards?

comparing non sport tobacco production to caramel baseball is apples to oranges imho.

None of them were precious or had any value, though the baseball appear to have been the most popular according to the press. This is not for E98 (and never was alleged to be), but cards were flooded everywhere in extremely high quantity in 1910. A tiny, tiny percentage survive by any evidence that I am aware of. I will take non-baseball production figures vs. surviving cards as a better logical guide than no data points at all. I’d love to see any evidence supporting high survival rates for baseball and only baseball pictures from this period. The survival for tobacco pictures appears to be minuscule, I can’t see why we would deduce that caramels survived in high rates.