Unique Philadelphia Phillies Lummis Peanut Butter/Sealtest Printers Proofs

[btcarfagno]

That is tremendous!

Does this mean that these were possibly issued over more than one year? Does it make them possibly a previously unknown set of some sort? This just gets more and more interesting.

One thing though. Mears not mentioning something in their listing does not in and of itself tell you what something is or is not. Trust me when I say I have made thousands of dollars over the past two years from Mears not exactly knowing what they had when they auctioned it off.

I paid what I did thinking that they had to be Lummis/Sealtest, and Mears just (once again) had no idea. Now I do not know what they are, but am more curious than ever wondering if these are something new.

They are almost a metallic stock. I don't know how to describe the material they are made from. The borders around the photo are actually raised as are the names.

I'm so confused but also excited to find out more. Should I move this over to the main forum? I don't want to take room from others in the BST if we are just discussing the cards themselves.

Tom C

[steve B]

Rapid electrotype was a huge and old company that made electrotype printing plates primarily for advertisers, often for use in newspaper ads. They had offices in Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Detroit and Philadelphia.

There's also a link online to a discussion of a similar item showing one of the DiMaggios.

My guess since they made mass produced electrotypes for ads is that the proofs are their own in-house proofs to assure the individual electrotype was correct. Maybe something that was sent along with the electrotype?

I didn't find a patent for a proofing mat under their name on Google patents, so either the OCR got it wrong, or the patent was never issued.

None of which proves or disproves any connection between the proofs and any particular set. It's possible the Lumis set was made using commercially prepared mass produced electrotypes. I'd have to actually have one to know if it was electrotyped, and I don't.

Steve B

[steve B]

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