The True Rookie Card of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali???

[Exhibitman]

1: Following up on the Clay publicity cards, there was a segment on Antiques Roadshow on Monday about one of these. The guy brought in a Clay publicity card with a different pose that he'd gotten from Clay when he was a boy in Miami, before the Liston fight. His was signed. It also had the facsimile stamped signature, which the alleged expert mis-identified as a fountain pen signature. Had me yelling BS at my TV set...I hate it when they make obvious mistakes on that show.

Here is a link to the video:

https://youtu.be/yAMCzLbRjsU

2: On the magazine cut out question, here is a different set from Fight Beat Magazine:



They are touted on the magazine cover as cards, are labeled as cards, and have dotted lines to cut out.

3: Shindana Games in a slab does look nice:



And for something even crazier, I found a cabinet card sized version:




I'm not sure if these were proofs, store displays, prototypes or what, but a near set turned up, found in an estate sale in Michigan.

[GasHouseGang]

Thanks for the link to the video Adam. How can the "expert" not know that is a printed signature? Honestly. What do you think of his valuation of the piece?

[Exhibitman]

If he offered it to me for $5,000 I'd buy it in a heartbeat. A snapshot of Clay from the 1960 Rome Olympics with a vintage signature and inscription on the back, PSA/DNA, sold for $8,365 at Heritage in 2016. I think this is a better piece. I'd rather have a front-signed fighter 'selfie' than someone else's snapshot signed on the back.

[GasHouseGang]

In case it disappears in the future, I was able to do a screen capture from the video of the Ali photo brought into Antiques Roadshow. Here it is...

[Exhibitman]

Same photo session, different pose.

I wonder what one of these unsigned would be worth? I've never seen one offered for sale properly described. They are rare, so I am not faulting the guy on PBS for not knowing what it was, but definitely for not realizing that the second 'signature' is a facsimile.