1933 Cobb Patent Card on eBay
 

There is an eBay auction for a 1933 Sport Kings Ty Cobb copyright/patent card (see stamps on reverse).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121684646099...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I remember seeing a Cobb Patent card in one of the past auctions, so I hunted it down. Scans follow: (circa. 2012). It sure seems to me that these are the same card, with the eBay card cracked out of the holder, and put on steroids to grow the borders. Anyone have an opinion?

Is it just me or does the Ebay one have rounder corners?

Rounder corners and wider borders on the left and bottom sides.

Why would someone remove this particular card from the holder? Seems it would be worth more designated a Patent card than a raw version with a really bad photo on ebay. Strange.

Stamp location is identical, don't know what they did with the borders.

The ebay card is worth about the current high bid $10. If you buy it do not expect it to grade or be real for that matter. It's just a copy.

For those of us not in the know, what is a patent card? I'm thinking it's an example for the issuing company's copyright/patent purposes?

The one on eBay looks like a fake/reprint.

In the old days you hand to send in samples or models of what you were submitting for patent or trade mark. Fair to assume these were such samples.

In the old days you hand to send in samples or models of what you were submitting for patent or trade mark. Fair to assume these were such samples.

Not sure why the are called patent cards, though. They seem more like copyright samples. Can't imagine there was any patent involved, though perhaps the 'patent and trademark' office were/are one.

You had to send them in twice?:confused::eek::D:D

As others have said, the one on ebay is fake. You can tell by the space between the border and the stamp combined with the fact that the "C" and the "I" are cut off like on the original. The difference being that on the original the rest of those letters missed being stamped on the card as the stamp was not fully applied on the card whereas on the copy there is the space.