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Originally Posted by Scott Garner
Hey Jimmy,
Those cameo type photos I make myself. It's something that I came up with to better display my no-hit tickets.
I collect no-hit pitcher postcards (signed preferrably), some team issued, some Burke/Brace, some actual RPPC or 3 x 5 photos. Mostly I prefer B/W, but I do have some that are in color when I can't find one in B/W.
With tickets in my no-hitter collection, I manufacture these cameos by making color copies of these postcards and diminish or enlarge the image to custom "fit" the cameo portion. I make color copies of B/W to get better quality copies. Finally, I use a cameo shape template to cut out the image and mount it with glue stick to a white, unlined 3 x 5 index card.
When you look at my no-hitter ticket collection, I have the tickets in toploaders with a second top loader behind it with the photo cameo card in a toploader facing forward, with a signed 3 x 5 or GPC signature of the pitcher on the backside of the cameo. My no-hitter tickets are stored in albums in chronological order in 3 pocket pages. It makes for a great way to store them and look through them as a collection.
It takes a little time to do this when you are starting from scratch, but I have been working on these cameos as a project over the last 2-3 winters.
What can I say, winters are long around here, and I guy with too much time on his hands gets board...  |
Very interesting and creative.
I only have one no-hitter stub - from Ryan's 7th that I attended. I used to have it displayed with a signed no-hitter poster, but the poster overwhelmed it.
Recently I picked up a wire photo from the no-hitter that is much smaller - trying to come up with something creative to display the ticket along with a photo of my friends after the game. I guess the next thing to do would be to get a signature on a smaller item?