How about CDVs were baseball cards before there were baseball “cards”. The Atlantics piece is a picture pasted on board (they had no better technology), it’s no larger than a modern day baseball card, and it clearly was intended to display players. In other words, they are are effectively prototypes or earliest versions of something later perfected; I am sure that exists with everything ever created and it’s early “stagedness” does not disqualify it from being what it later became
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