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David SmithIt might take some time but the easiest way to tell, at least to me, if these are "proofs" or not would be to see if the pictures and captions are from any books or magazines.
If there is a Baseball Digest, for example, that has these pictures and captions in it then some kid in the past probably cut them out and pasted them over 1935 Goudeys cards.
Now, if nobody has ever seen or can find any of these pictures in any book or magazine then there is a good chance that Goudey made up some mock fronts and pasted them on some left over 1935 cards they had lying around just to see how they might look IF they were ever put into production.
I think they are NOT proofs and just some cutouts pasted onto 1935 cards. If so, my question is, what players are underneath those cutouts and what damage might the glue or adhesive have done to the fronts?
David