Batting Order/Lineup Cards

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Originally Posted by Topnotchsy

3) My approach to them in general has been to view the top copy as being autographed, and the carbon copies to be somewhere in between an autograph and a facsimile. Is there an accepted way of viewing these?

Interesting question. I know nothing about line up cards, and did not even know they hard carbon copies, but assuming the carbon copy was transferred at the time the document was written, I would consider it an ‘autograph”, not a facsimile. The reason for that is because it was the person’s own signature written in their own handwriting. It wasn’t copied at some later date. The person wrote it, in this case using pen, ink, and carbon as the writing instruments. All that being said, I would pay more for the top copy than the carbon copy, and would grade the quality of the signature on the carbon just like any signature.