Checklist Collectors?

[steve B]

Just 56 and 57 were pack inserts. Ad inserts lasted till 1960.

What I'm not sure about being younger is if in say 56 every pack had a checklist or if they were random inserts. If every pack had one, I can see nearly all of them getting thrown out. Same for 57, most kids would have tossed the ads, and after the first couple, all the checklists as well.

As late as 76 I got free cards from a kid that wanted the gum, not the cards. He bought packs and threw the cards away just outside the store.

Steve B

[Doug]

If I was putting together a set my OCD would probably kick in and require me to have the checklists (unmarked of course) to consider my set complete, but I've never had that kind of patience so I just stick to collecting single cards.

[mintacular]

Would the insert count as a "card" in terms of how many you got? So if '57 had 5 cards in a pack would the checklist count as one of those 5? Speaking of '57s I just bought the 4th/5th series CL (that is marked) for $50 and I feel like that was quite a good $