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Best on-card element, part 1

  This is a series that will probably run once a week over the next six or seven weeks, depending on how much tolerance I have for the sets of the past 30 years. As I mentioned back in this post , I want to list what I find to be the best on-card element of each major set since 1950. This exercise has solely to do with the physical card, front or back. It's not about who is in the set or how large the set is or anything like that.   Unlike my other posts, I'm using online images for this. Taking photos of my cards the last few months has been all right but we're heading to the dismal, dark days here in the Northeast, which does not produce bright images. Also, it'll be kind of nice to show some cards that are a little different on this blog. I don't have a lot more to say about it, so let's start with the first episode in the series, the major releases of the 1950s: 1950 1950 Bowman   Best on-card element: Artistic quality   This is kind of a general statement a...