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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Wow - this is as nice a photo as I've seen on an Old Judge card. It's going to be worth a trip to the Fort Washington show just to see it in person. I'm a little disappointed that Terry Knouse has made it a private auction so we can't see who has already placed the first bid on it and what hobby titans will be duking it out at the end. Also, my memory is failing me, but I could swear I've seen or heard of another Dailey someplace and I can't recall whether it was in Lipset's book, a major auction or whether I just imagined it. Anyone else recall seeing one?

Rhys - you've already seen the card. I know this will probably horrify the purists among us and I don't mean to turn this into yet another alteration debate, but if you are certain it is just dirt, doesn't it seem odd that it wasn't cleaned off before encapsulation? It certainly seems like it could be dirt and not stains (since staining would most certainly have bled through to the back), but isn't the back awful clean given how dirty the front is?

And speaking of the back, the description mentions a crease in the upper right hand corner. My web browser at work is horrendous so that may be the reason, but I don't see any crease on the back. I doubt SGC would have missed a rebacking job.