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As far as I know, there was only one edition of the album, but the album itself has no flags in it, only bordered spaces with (for most, but not all of the spaces) an indication as to what card belonged there. The purchaser bought it at a very modest price (maybe even zero, though I don’t think so). Then with each pack of Massary cigarettes purchased, you got a flag card (I don’t know if they were packed together with the actual cigarettes or not). As a result, flags which came into existence later (or perhaps, occasionally, flags that Neubecker discovered later) could be put in either instead of, or in addition to, the original ones. Those cards were marked with an "a" in addition to the number of the flag replaced. In addition, a few received numbers in extension of their series (e.g. if the series originally contained 10 flags, they may be numbered 11). Since the table of contents had references only to the original plan, these can be spotted. The album is certainly no earlier than 1926, since the table of contents refers to President Hindenburg’s decree about flying the Imperial Kriegsflagge on the anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.
Norman Martin, 06 Feb 2001

The album was published first in 1929, but in several slightly different editions. Not only are picture known with corrections labelled as pictures ...a, ...b and ...c. There are also corrected picture cards without number changing [q.v. for example the Mistaken Lübeck State Ensign 1921-c.1926]. For a complete album with all picture cards published you have to collect at least 1071 cards (the number I know). A second album followed, it was subtitled "Nachtrag" and had series 79-113 with 380 picture cards, of which only 126 were published.
Ralf Stelter, 7 Feb 2001

916 cards officially published, but number of cards rose to about 1030 or even more considering all corrections and variations (some cards had numbers like 30, 30 [new], 30 a, 30 b, 30 c etc.). Several variations of this album have been published. The first version was an album for 300 cards only.
Ralf Stelter, 25 Feb 2001

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