New Old Judge discovery

[z28jd]

Yeah, what Jay said is what I think. If anything they are GQ cards, but even when you look at the space at the bottom of the McDonald between the name and the ad, there should at least be part of the GQ ad showing, even if they were slightly trimmed. Based on that, I'd say they are more likely proofs of the GQ card. Definitely not an Old Judge card though

[dstudeba]

Incredible find, unfortunately I had some problems with the production of the segment

If you look at the 1:56 minute mark, here is a picture of the scrapbook page with the two newly discovered cards.



Then you look at the same page at the 2:10 mark and it has the only other discovered California league GQ card. Obviously a photoshop job.



Then to continue their photoshopping job they put the three cards together and again fail to account for the relative sizes at 2:51.

[dstudeba]

I do believe that when the sizes are checked it will show that the new cards have the ads cut off. This was relatively common, and could have been done to make it fit in the scrapbook since they look slightly larger than the normal GQs. Does anyone have the exact measurement? According to my SCD big book it says it is approximately the same as a regular GQ.

[E93]

It looks like if the bottoms were just trimmed off we would still see part of the Gypsie Queen lettering judging ratios by eye. My guess would be that they are some type of GQ proof. Whatever they are, they are extremely cool!

Thanks also to KO for promoting this cool find and the hobby in general through his show.
JimB

[dstudeba]

Originally Posted by E93

It looks like if the bottoms were just trimmed off we would still see part of the Gypsie Queen lettering judging ratios by eye. My guess would be that they are some type of GQ proof. Whatever they are, they are extremely cool!

Jim -

Take a look at the first picture in my post, it is more photoshopping. That picture of the three cards together should not be shown to collectors as it is misleading in many ways.

[autograf]

From the album photo, it's clear that the cards were trimmed near the team name, unlike the 'doctored' or enhanced pictures which appear to have added a significant amount of lower border. I still stand by my belief that they're from the same set and that the two cards that were recently found had the Gypsy Queen tagline trimmed. The enhanced cards with the bottom border added are somewhat deceptive but I assume done that way to just show the cards better.....still very, very cool stuff. You have to assume that there are more of them out there. On the album.....again.....was this the album that was sold in the recent SCP auction for $80K+? Or is it another album out there?