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PaulNow, that the auction's over, what do you all think?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=016&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=260131096909&rd=1&rd=1
The card is smaller than the one auctioned by REA in 2004 and has much wider borders. And the names at the bottom extend into the side borders, which they did not do on the REA card.
The seller was Bryan Dec. While certainly not a 19th century or negro league specialist, he does deal in vintage material, seems knowledgeable, and I've never heard anything particularly bad about him. I emailed him and he acknowledged this card was different than REA's. He said that it was removed from a turn of the century scrapbook. He said he had seen one other like it. He also said the stock is thinner than a T3 but thicker than a Lorillard. (Having never held a Lorillard, I wasn't 100% sure what that meant).
I'd really like to hear what you folks think of this one.