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Posted By: Jay

Mike---Several new cards have been discovered (Gibson, O'Day-Sacramento, etc) while a few have been eliminated as two listings were discovered to be the same player (Burns-Omaha/KC, Kelly-Manager/Umpire, etc.). There are 2491 known poses. I am not familiar with the SCD catalog but they may be considering team variations and we (and the British Cartophilic Society) are only considering different poses. We are not picturing the other roughly 65 poses because we could not find the cards. They are included in the British Cartophilic Society listing but we could not access the actual cards to make a scan of the pose. Unless you collect Old Judge cards you cannot appreciate the rarity of some of these images. There may only be one or two copies of some poses in existence in the world. Since one major collection is housed at the British Museum (a collection we did not get images from) perhaps some of these cards reside there. I consider it more amazing that we found as many pose images as we did. Lew Lipset has been collecting Old Judge images for over twenty years. He had between 75% and 80% of these images in his reference file, no small accomplishment. We, in one year, got scans of over 97% of the poses. I would hope that some collectors reading the book may uncover poses we still don't have images of or maybe even find some new poses.

I hope you enjoy the book!