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Posted By: Jay Miller

That ebay item is not a cabinet. The way the small cards were made, I believe, was when a 6x4 pattern of cabinet sized photos was attached to a "board". Under each photo a banner/banners were attached with the player's name, position and team and some Goodwin & Co. advertising. This banner/banners were attached by what look to be some form of pins(look closely at some Old Judge cards and these pin heads appear as small circles). The group of 24 cards was then rephotographed, attached to a backing, and cut into cards. The rephotographing reduced the individual photo size from cabinet size to N172 size.
That ebay item could not be the precursor of a card which was cut from the cabinet board. As stated above such an item would be a photo with some material tacked onto it. It would not be one photo including both the player photo and the text.