If you thought bat slivers and tiny pieces of uniform were bad,, look at this
 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2012-FAMOUS-...item2ebb29ed7e


I am sorry, if some like this. but this is wrong.
Taking tiny bat slivers, tiny patches of uniforms, ruining autographs for chase cards are bad enough gimmicks but now some manufacturer is creating and selling these cut Presidential autographs.
Presidents did not go around signing autograph albums and index cards and such. Presidential autographs are usually found on documents or letters. There are few cuts offered to Presidential collectors.
These chase card cuts can, most likely, only be produced in one way. Destroying a letter or document by cutting the signature off. They are destroying history to once again create a chase card with a vastly and ridiculously inflated price. This is just wrong.
I collect Presidents and have more Presidential documents framed on my walls than I do baseball stuff and I really resent this.

Amen.

At least the production is very low.

Any bets on how many of the older ones are secretarial from common documents? And how many of the more recent ones are autopens from christmas cards or the generic "thanks for writing " cards?


Steve B

I would hope so, but at those prices the "collector" should expect better than that. He should at least get a ruined document cut for his money :D.

I believe there is also a Leaf "Oval Office" set that is basically the same thing. They advertise "Look for the Washington & Lincoln dual cut auto!" Seriously.

I'm just hoping for a swatch of Lincoln's "Speech Worn" top hat and a sliver of Washington's "Meal Used" wooden teeth.

Now that is funny :D:D.

Its disgraceful indeed. Joe Jackson bat Sawdust, game usde uniform pieces, etc. now this. Ruin classic memorabilia for this crap

I don't like it but this practice has gone on way before cards were made. In the early 1800's people were cutting up famous speaches of Washington and selling pieces. In the 1800's tomb robbers were cutting up priceless scrolls and selling them a pieces at a time. Maybe these auto's were already cut off by the time the card companies got them? Dont' like it either, just saying.

I want a Mummy Wrapping swatch card!

What else could they use all those leftover bandages for once the body has been ground up for my revitalizing Mummia tea?

Didn't they find out that King Tut was missing his p*nis not too long ago?

Hope that doesn't turn up on a "Chase" card anytime soon.

Maybe they could have a dual cut of Tut and John Wayne Bobbit!

Nice double entendre ;)