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Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss
How about CDVs were baseball cards before there were baseball “cards”. The Atlantics piece is a picture pasted on board (they had no better technology), it’s no larger than a modern day baseball card, and it clearly was intended to display players. In other words, they are are effectively prototypes or earliest versions of something later perfected; I am sure that exists with everything ever created and it’s early “stagedness” does not disqualify it from being what it later became
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I think CdVs evolved into baseball cards but are not baseball cards themselves. Kind of like the evolution of apes to humans. I appreciate that there are different points of view and it is really immaterial since they are all in the broader class of collectibles.