1952 Red Man Baseball Forum

Some of the images in this set (these sets) have tabs, some don’t.  Should we create the base set without tabs and then a parallel set with tabs, like these football sets - https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/9179/1986-McDonald's-All-Star-Team ?

Weren't all the cards issued with tabs? Those without tabs are simply cards where the tabs had previously been removed, correct? Not trying to be smart just making sure I understand how the sets were issued. 

The tab contains the card number. IMO, cards without tabs are incomplete.

Yes, cards were issued with tabs.  1952 was the only year the card number appeared only on the tab.  1953-1955 the card number was on the main card and the tab.

I didn't know that about the 1952 series. I have a handful of the later series so I've always been used to the numbers being on the cards themselves. 

Back to your original question. What would be gained by creating an insert? In keeping with the rest of the site should pictures of the cards without tabs simply be marked as needing replacement images, but keeping the existing ones until such a time when someone scans a complete card into onto the site?

That is why I compared it to the McDonald’s football cards.  The base set was without the tab and a parallel set was with the tab.  Another example is the MooTown Snackers, https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/89973/1991-MooTown-Snackers, where the base image is just the card, but the parallel set is the card and the attached checklist/mail-in offer.

So, a card without a tab would become an NNO.

A few years back all the scans in the database were without the tabs. That frustrated me to no end. I have always thought it should have been the other way around as the cards were originally issued with the tabs. The with tab version should be the base and then the without tabs version to me would be the parallel. Even though in the wild you will come across more without tab specimens. In my personal  collection (of only a handful of cards from all the years of Red Man sets) most have the tab and are in excellent condition, I was determined to find the tabbed versions when looking. I have one maybe two Red Man cards without the tab. To me cards missing the tab are incomplete just as the 1980s McDonalds cards are incomplete without the tabs. Of course with the McDonalds Football cards you also have the problem of "scratch off" issues and the various colors of the stuff that gets scratched off due to the nature of McDonalds card promotion of a different color per week during the promotion because it corresponded to that particular years Football season.