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Originally Posted by G1911
Same thing for his 1930 Chicago Evening Pin; often appears on card lists and catalogs but a pin is not a card.
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Thankfully, we can make up the rules for our own beliefs as we see fit. It might not gel with the generally accepted school(s) of thought when trying to sell an item, though!
It also bugs me when I see a pin, a Salada coin or anything 3-D among a checklist of a player's cards. Stop it! Being exclusively an autograph guy, I just imagine the sheer silliness of trying to get a player to sign some of these items. I've actually seen a collector or two online who get the Jell-O coins signed. Really, you're sending a round item the width of a poker chip with a teeny photo recessed into a piece of plastic to a 90 year old man and want him to sign it legibly? Jeez, don't torture the poor guy. The instance of this which I laughed at the most was where someone sent one to Johnny Romano, I believe. You want the guy to fit 12 letters on that surface?! If Ed Ott was old enough to have appeared in the set, then OK, maybe...
I fully understand your (Greg's) feelings that a card requires cardboard to be considered a card, but here I like to bend my own rules a little bit in regards to signed cards. Some players/executives may not have a card printed until much later in their careers, if at all. Additionally, their card RC may have an astronomical value attached to it, whereas the earlier-issued premium is both older and can sometimes be had for a song. I don't mind owning a premium, especially if it's autographed! The closer in size to a CARD card, the better, though.