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Hal LewisBarry is correct.
The only thing that predates this Cabinet are the PROOFS of the individual players that were laid out and used to shoot this big composite.
Tery Knouse (TIK & TIK) HAS those proofs and they are for sale for a pretty penny.
BUT... here is my distinction.
Those pictures are clearly PROOFS and NOT "cards" that were distriubuted to ANYONE anywhere.
In fact, they were THEN used to create the J. Wood INDIVIDUAL player cabinet cards... which were THEN used as the basis for the N167 Old Judge drawings.
The PROOFS that TIK has are ONLY the photographs of the players mounted on hard backs with ZERO BORDER.
The mounts on the REAL J. Wood individual player cabinet cards that were given to the public are JUST LIKE the mounts on my J. Wood team cabinet.
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SO... saying that the J. Wood cabinet cards of each INDIVIDUAL player from J. Wood PRE-DATE my team cabinet is not provable.
Yes, the proofs predate it ... but I don't collect proofs.
Furthermore, if we DO start counting proofs... then NOTHING we ever bought at the store would be a rookie card ... only the proof that someone had to steal from the factory. Not a good slope to slip down.