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Posted By: hankron

I agree that we don't know that it is a proof, and it is also a guess that it was a notebook cover. However, I don't beleive Lemke used the name literally, but (rightly or wrongly) borrowed the popular name for them. Many baseball cards have nicknames that shouldn't be taken literally (T3s aren't genuine cabinet cards, some Horner cabinets were BJ Falk).

Lemke wrote: "The date attributed to this issue, as well as its actual intended use is speculative." To me, this says he is not making a specific definition of the card and that others are welcome to speculate. In other words, if you are saying there's no way to know that these are proofs, I don't beleive Lemke is arguing.

If I were selling one, I would not call it a proof, other than to mention that it is listed in SCD under '1910 Notebook Proofs.' You know what I would say? "No one really knows what it is?"