[JollyElm]

This may be pertinent. When I was little my father had some real estate business dealings with Whitey Ford and one night he brought home photocopies of his, I believe, 1954 Topps card (I still have the card in rough shape somewhere around here) autographed for me and two of my brothers. We really had no clue who Whitey Ford was (and we were Mets fans), so those photocopies eventually vanished in the attic of time. But they were, in fact, autographed photocopies of cards, so I wouldn't discount the concept out of hand.

The reason he had Whitey autograph photocopies was due to the simple fact that there were 3 of us and he only had the one card.