retrowavelength <retrowavelength@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:nN2dnX1z17htLIvBnZ2dnUU7-fEAAAAA@giganews.com:
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> My only theory is that sometimes the numbers were for sets & sometimes
> they were just the phtotgrapher's cataloging/filing numbers. And as
> to sets, we "know" there were series sold in packs of 12 but I've also
> seen sets with more than 12 of the same ID numbers, so were they sold
> as sets or were they someone else's odd cataloging artifact? Of
> course, they never suspected that 50 or so years later people would be
> trying to make sense out of whatever hodgepodge numbering systems
> "worked" for them at the time.
>
> --rwl
Thanks for the reply and the larger pictures. The group was a little slow
so I thought I would post these to see if someone else had any better
thoughts. I agree, that these ID numbers are somewhat of a mystery to all
of us as we try to puzzle out what happened long ago.
HM
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