Exhibit card oddity or ?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Nope, can't be from a production sheet because the stock is wrong.

Proof sheet?

Hard to believe they'd waste that much cardboard, but it does look like it would be normal sized if they cut a border around each card.

Looking at these sheets that does look like what they did.

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/Lot...llection-(19)#

http://www.josportsinc.com/catalog/view.php?id=10900

I can't recall seeing an exhibit showing a part of another card.
Not really good manufacturing practice, but cutting all four edges would have let them have few obvious miscuts. And if the sheets are any indication, that cardboard would have been wasted anyway.

The only reasons I can think of to cut that way which has a lot more labor cost - 25-26 cuts instead of around 14 or less -

Having no obvious miscuts.

maybe some flexibility in size? Like if a competitors machine took cards a bit narrower or wider they could adjust for that. I'd think that the other companies would be looking to copy ESCO so they could get their cards into the machines of the one with more market share. Maybe there was some sort of machine that sold something else close in size?

If the cutting was not guillotine, but die cutting the whole sheet at once. I don't think that's realistic. Their printing was low tech, and die cutting the whole sheet would be pretty advanced. All mine are lower grade, so the stuff that would indicate die cutting would be long gone. But the nice ones aren't even close.

Steve B