Diamond Dust punchboards - to punch or not to punch?

[Exhibitman]

I'd love to get to the bottom of the origin of the set. The cards share images with the Salutations Exhibits from 1939-47. They are on paper that shows evidence of having been tightly folded and have numbers on the back [more on these below]. Here is a better view of one front:



They are not on the same paper as is on the front of the punchboard shown, though the design is the same.

Here is a small [6 x 8 x 1/2] DD board with a slip of paper I punched out of it. The paper was tightly folded into a small tubular shape as you can see from the ridges across its face. The big black number was meant to match with the three digit codes on the players depicted [this one #563 happened not to match a player; it was a losing punch]; the red numbers are the serial number of the board, so you could not stockpile old slips and switch them. I suspect that the reason there is a number on the back of my card is precisely that; it was a serial # of the board meant to tie the winning punch to the board so it could not be reused.



How thick is the punchboard with the cards depicted?

[GasHouseGang]

Couldn't that "card" just be hand-cut off the punch board? It sure looks a lot like those cards that are around the front of the second board shown.

[cincicards]

Here are a few boards that I had once upon a time, plus a couple of pages from a punchboard catalog and a card.

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[JoeDfan]

My Joe DiMaggio SGC Authentic(?) card looks to be made of cigarette paper or something, and I can easily see where it might have been rolled up.
However, my card is 1" exactly in diameter, but the board is only 3/4" in diameter. I think for the moment, I will NOT punch it out; but if I change my mind, I promise that I will film the whole thing!
Thanks everyone for the information; although now I must admit, I am more curious about these cards then when I started!

[1880nonsports]

too big for the scanner

[edjs]

For what it is worth, the Standard Catalog says the 1940 Diamond Dust Punchboard cards were rolled up inside the punchboard. It has a nice description about the 1940 only, and mentions that earlier and later Diamond Dust punchboard cards are uncatalogued.

Ed

[Butch7999]

Was it Twain or was it Lincoln who said something like "Better to remain silent and be thought an idiot
than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"... Kind of wishing now that we'd never piped up in this thread
and put our ignorance on display...
Randall's pic of the accordion-folded Newson has us all but convinced that once again we didn't know
what we were talking about -- couldn't see the folds in Ben's pic of the DiMaggio, but the two "cards" seem a match in format.
Couldn't imagine how there could've been much of anything inside the punch-out dots of a relatively thin, flat punchboard,
but we can kinda see now how a rolling-paper-thin "card" could be given an accordion fold and then rolled into
a tight little coil to be pushed out of the board.
We'll just add that unless Newson is one of the players listed on Adam's board, none of the punchboards we've ever seen,
including any of the Diamond Dust variations, features Newson among the players listed on the front, so it's possible
that the punched-out "cards" are included only in that yet-to-be-catalogued board.
We're gonna go sit in the corner now and shut up.