Help Identifying Don Newcombe Card

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Posted By: Paul

Have any of you ever seen a card / premium like this before? It has some similarities to standard 5 x 7 team issue photos. But it is on much stiffer, thicker paper, is glossy on both sides, and has a lengthy biography and stats on the back. Oh, and it's in color too.

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Posted By: leon

Glen will know....

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Posted By: Glen V

Sorry, no idea here. Maybe a team issue - there are lots of those and the SCD doesn't list most of them.

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Posted By: Bob Lemke

I can definitively say I never saw this type of card during my years working on the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards.

Call me a cynic, but I don't think it's contemporary with Newk's Brooklyn playing days. Does anybody have the Golden Stamp book of the Dodgers handy to compare this photo with?

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Posted By: Paul

Bob, you're a cynic. The card shows Newk's stats only through 1955. Unless it was a deliberate forgery, I think that means it's from 1956. If someone was making a modern set (without intending to deceive), it should show his stats through the end of his career. At least, I think it should.

By the way, it is 5x7.

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Posted By: leon

When I first saw it I thought to myself "more contemporary tribute card"....maybe 70's-80's? and I could be totally wrong.....

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Posted By: Phil Garry

The 2008 Beckett Almanac (Nolan Ryan & Babe Ruth are on the cover) has lots of team issues catalogued and might be the best bet to try. I have one but am at work now and it is at home.

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Posted By: Bob Lemke

that the Newk picture is NOT the same as the 1955 Dodgers Golden Stamps (though it looks like it could have been an "outtake").

The SCBC lists a set of black-and-white Dodgers photo pack, with the same format of name and team in blank-backed 5x7.

I'm not saying that it is was a fake created to deceive, perhaps it is some collector's tribute to the World Champion 1955 Dodgers, hence the stats only through 1955.

I just have a healthy suspicion about any alleged 1950s item, especially from a team as popular as the Bums, that was not seen in my 20+ years of catalging.

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

I think cards like this were discussed here a while back. It looks familiar and that may be why. I would search/scroll the forum.