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[Exhibitman]

I guess as you get more 'advanced' (age and card collecting), it takes a bit more to interest you:



N28 or A16 proof. Only one I've ever seen. It surfaced for sale years ago, vanished into a collection, then popped up in the April Lelands auction. It's pretty amazing looking in hand; wish it was a Sullivan

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I guess as you get more 'advanced' (age and card collecting), it takes a bit more to interest you:

N28 or A17 proof. Only one I've ever seen. It surfaced for sale years ago, vanished into a collection, then popped up in the April Lelands auction. It's pretty amazing looking in hand; wish it was a Sullivan

That is super awesome! Is it standard Ginter thickness or thin like a album cut?

[Exhibitman]

it is thin but not skinned. David Rudd (Cycleback) documented the proof years ago. It is on his web site.

Here's more nuttiness from the same Lelands lot:

I was scanning the A16-A17 stuff from the lot and noticed something odd:

Here is an A16 page:



Typical. Now, here is a Joe Lannon cut:



Notice anything? Let me put them side by side:



Yup, the A16 doesn't cut down to a clean card. Also, the name is black on the A16 and brown on the cut. Hmm. Since there was a proof in the lot I thought maybe I had more proofs. Then I looked closely at the edges of the three 'A16' boxer cuts in the lot. All of them have borders that do not match the colors of the backgrounds on the A16 sheets. What has matching colors around the borders of the cards?



What I have is a cut from the G20 poster, not an A16 album. I checked the other two cuts and they also have brown type and do not match their A16 pages, so they are G20 cuts too:



Since there are only a few of the posters known, these cuts are rare as well. I can't fault Lelands for missing this, it is really subtle and I did not see it until I was putting the cuts over the images on the album pages to see if the cuts were full sized, but who the heck collected this group of A16-A17 pages, G20 cuts and a proof, and did they know what they had?

[Exhibitman]

But it gets even better than that. There were four cuts from the 2nd series album, allegedly. An anomaly on one of the Jack McGee cuts caught my eye:



The black print on the right side. It matches the McGee on the 2nd series poster where the La Blanche overlaps:



The 2nd McGee of the lot was cut narrower but in hand you can just see the tip of the corner of the La Blanche image. The Kerrigan and Patsey Duffy also match the poster's background colors. In other words, they are G21 cuts.

[G1911]

Awesome stuff. Poster cuts can be really tough; I have some I’ve been trying for years to even find any other copies of known. Fun complement to a set

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

Awesome stuff. Poster cuts can be really tough; I have some I’ve been trying for years to even find any other copies of known. Fun complement to a set

Want some G20 and G21 cuts, I'm game.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Want some G20 and G21 cuts, I'm game.

Emailed you.

I have some T68 poster cuts from a poster otherwise unknown; some T29's from what I suspect was a thick cardboard display otherwise unknown, and this Tommy Ryan that is clearly from some kind of poster type product (not skinned, very different front stock to a normal card). This kind of stuff is fun to slot in alongside a set, a way to keep collecting after finishing a 'set'.

I remember the unique T227 poster cuts that appeared awhile back, those were pretty neat. Don't know where they ended up. There's presumably a number of still unknown posters that existed for these T and N sets waiting to be found.