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The R112-3 Aeroplanes - Series B contains twenty-seven (27) basic aircraft images with a mirror-image duplicate card of the XP-42 which brings the total to 28 images. There were also two Supermarine Spitfire cards: (1) SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE (England) marked FZL and (2) SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE (Britain) marked QJF. The QJF uses the same back as the FZL card. The two XP-42 and the two Spitfire cards would explain the difference between the notation on the back 26 cards versus the actual number of 28 cards. However, there were a total of three distinct varieties of the set issued by the Leaf Gum Company via their CARD-O Chewing Gum. To make things a little more confusing, Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin also issued two series of Zoom Airplane Card Games that are often confused as being a R112-3 variety. The Whitman Airplane Card Games share much of the artwork that is used in the R112-3 series. It should be noted that the Whitman Publishing Company is the original source of the artwork used in the series. Their wartime booklets contain the original artwork used with this series and many others series such as the Tydol UO-1 series.
Accord to the late veteran Airplane Card Collector, Richard Dahlquist, of Holden MA, the XP-42 (facing right) card appears only once in the series. It is only in the cards with the Plain Text backs series. The total number of cards in the R112-3 series is therefore 82 cards. Image guides for the three varieties are shown below. The card dimensions are 2¼ × 3½ inches with rounded corners. The American Card Catalog reference number for the set is R112-3.
missing: Airacobra, Bell Airacuda, Curtiss XP-42, Focke Wolf Stieglitz, Fokker D-21, Fokker D-79, Koolhoven F.K. 58, Supermarine Spitfire - England, Supermarine Spitfire - Britain, Vultee V-12A
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