Old Judge Proofs?

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Posted By: Jay Miller

I went to the Ft Washington show yesterday and had the opportunity to meet Nick and the rest of the folks from American Memorabilia and see the Flynn images. First, let me say that Nick was very nice and helpful, a real gentleman. However, nothing I saw after examining the images changed my view that they are not period and were not produced by Goodwin & Co. Actually, the most interesting thing about the Flynn images was reading the catalog descriptions. The introductory sentence + to the section of the catalog describing these images states:

"Vintage card expert Bob Lemke recently delivered an in-depth report in the pages of Sports Collectors Digest regarding a group of newly discovered Old Judge proof cards which served as models for Goodwin's standard N172 issue. This catalog offers four of these rarities......."

After reading that it makes it sound like Bob is the resident expert who proclaimed these to be good. This doesn't give me a really warm feeling. Secondly, later in the introductory paragraph it states that the image's mountings are "absolutely unviolated". Am I having a senior moment or didn't Seth say that he had the group of four images cut up into four individual images. Sounds violated to me and it also sounds like this was a display piece. Finally, unfortunately for me and these images these are exactly the same images that I have on a four image Flynn display piece. Hardly unique proof images.