Posted By:
Frank WakefieldI don't accept the factory reback idea you guys are kicking around.
Rebacking seems more manufacturing intensive to me than just making a card with the desired back. American Litho prints lots of card front sheets, then backs them as they need. Once a back is printed they should be close to cutting the sheet and shipping it off. Absolutely no sense in rebacking at the factory.
Seems to me that a rebacking could occur where someone wants a certain back on a certain card (today, for money, 100 years ago because a kid wants a certain back to match up with other cards). Or rebacking could occur where a card is peeled away from a scrapbook and another card pasted in its place. Just imagine some kid peeling a spare Cobb card out of his scrapbook, leaving a bit of the back, then pasting in the 'new' series Crawford card that he'd traded for...
Factory rebacking, not credible.