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Posted By: Joann

OK, I'll follow up with a dumb question that I've been meaning to ask, and is within the spirit of the thread.

I just got my first V100 Willard Chocolates card. Completely unlabeled anywhere except for the facsimile signature of the player's name on the front. I saw on someone's website some cards called - I think - Baseball Bats, or something like that (apologies for the haze - I go through so many clicks sometimes I forget where they led me).

I was wondering on both, not so much how a grader might determine they were Willard's Chocolates, or Baseball Bats, or whatever, but how ANYONE had determined that. Is it verbal knowledge passed down? Did someone run across company records somewhere? Were there enough examples pasted in scrapbooks with handwritten labels that the hobby concluded or knew who made them?

Any insights into how someone originally knew, found out, and identified completely blank cards with the designations they carry today?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Joann