Was it Twain or was it Lincoln who said something like "Better to remain silent and be thought an idiot
than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"... Kind of wishing now that we'd never piped up in this thread
and put our ignorance on display...
Randall's pic of the accordion-folded Newson has us all but convinced that once again we didn't know
what we were talking about -- couldn't see the folds in Ben's pic of the DiMaggio, but the two "cards" seem a match in format.
Couldn't imagine how there could've been much of anything inside the punch-out dots of a relatively thin, flat punchboard,
but we can kinda see now how a rolling-paper-thin "card" could be given an accordion fold and then rolled into
a tight little coil to be pushed out of the board.
We'll just add that unless Newson is one of the players listed on Adam's board, none of the punchboards we've ever seen,
including any of the Diamond Dust variations, features Newson among the players listed on the front, so it's possible
that the punched-out "cards" are included only in that yet-to-be-catalogued board.
We're gonna go sit in the corner now and shut up.
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