Tom:
Sorry to poke holes in your theory, but I am with Larry and Josh, these are NOT Lummis proofs. I can "refute" two or three of the things you quote as circumstantial evidence.
The Seminick photo, as well as many of the others used for the Sealtest/Lummis cards were stock team photos, as is evidenced by many of them being used in the Phillies 1949 Yearbook.
What I do know for sure is that there are others much larger and different shaped, than your eight, so your saying they are very similar size and shape wise to the Lummis is not accurate. See my previous post about them below.
And finally to quote you, TAKE A GREAT PAUSE... you will see in my post a School Boy Rowe in a DIFFERENT pose and uniform style than his card in the Lummis set. First photo second from the left bottom row.
I do not believe the listing where you won these mentioned that they were Lummis proofs either. They ID'd them as being Rapid Electrotype printing proof cards. See:
http://sports.mearsonlineauctions.co...entoryid=90777
My post is here:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=178002
Interested in your and others take on the above and the photos in my earlier post.
Fred
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Originally Posted by btcarfagno
Thank you Joshua. I will do that.
My thoughts on the Lummis/Sealtest connection:
1. They were regional Philadelphia issues and these are Phillies only and stamp on back is also Philadelphia.
2. Size-wise they are very similar to Lummis/Sealtest
3. Shape-wise they are very similar to Lummis/Sealtest
4. Of the seven players, only two were in the Lummis/Sealtest issue. Those two happen to have the same exact photos as do the Lummis/Sealtest cards of those players? Possible coincidence. But it would be HUGE coincidence. If there was a player in the lot that had a different image than he had in the Lummis/Sealtest it would give me great pause. But the two who ended up in the set just happen to be the same exact photos as Lummis/Sealtest?
5. Every other player in this lot other than the two who ended up in the Lummis/Sealtest set were no longer with the team by the time the Lummis/Sealtest issue was released. So, again it would be a HUGE coincidence if this has nothing to do with that particular issue, yet the only two issued in card form are the ones who were still on the team when that particular set was released, AND those two happen to have the exact same images as they did in that set.
Circumstantial evidence I will agree. But there is a LOT of circumstantial evidence.
Tom C
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