Calling ticket experts! - holy grail find?

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by conor912

Pretty interesting thread (in spots).

Would someone mind defining a proof, exactly?

Conor,
Proof tickets are tickets with no seat or row numbers printed on them. Frequently they were used as ticket salesman samples. They would be shown to potential ticket customers as samples of tickets that the company was capable of producing.
It also should be noted that these tickets are frequently found in entire ticket strips with multiple tickets, not unlike the strip that has been shown in this thread.

Historically, they typically are less desirable than an actual ticket with seat/row numbers to the ticket collector. That being said, the World Series strip that Stephen has is interesting because of age and it contains a significant game of historic notoriety.

FWIW, if I were Stephen I wouldn't separate the tickets as I see them as possibly being more unusual if kept intact. My thinking would be that since they had survived over 80 years, why alter their appearance? If nothing else they look cool for display or possibly being framed. Just my 2 cents...

[RedsFan1941]

the other primary use of ticket proofs was to spot any errors in text or graphics during the printing process. a sheet of tickets would be designed, then printed so the printers could “proof” the content for errors. because these weren’t meant to used for admission to the event, there was no need to add seat and row numbers, because that involved an extra step in the printing process.

[Bpm0014]

you get locked in the bathroom aka the mush room for 24 hours like Mush.

"Hey I don't want your money touching my money. I don't want your money in the same neighborhood as my money."

"Whaaaat Sonny, my money's no good??"

"Because you're a fkn jinx that's why. Hey put him in the fkn bathroom. Leave him in there. He's a fkn jinx."


What a great movie!!

[Shoeless Moe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEU6hrEAVf4

[EYECOLLECTVINTAGE]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEU6hrEAVf4

That is definitely our boy on here

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by RedsFan1941

the other primary use of ticket proofs was to spot any errors in text or graphics during the printing process. a sheet of tickets would be designed, then printed so the printers could “proof” the content for errors. because these weren’t meant to used for admission to the event, there was no need to add seat and row numbers, because that involved an extra step in the printing process.

This isn't "an "other" reason for proofs. This is THE reason.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by RedsFan1941

the other primary use of ticket proofs was to spot any errors in text or graphics during the printing process. a sheet of tickets would be designed, then printed so the printers could “proof” the content for errors. because these weren’t meant to used for admission to the event, there was no need to add seat and row numbers, because that involved an extra step in the printing process.

+1