Calling ticket experts! - holy grail find?

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by steve B

Only if we also get an "opinion shop" area where people can go after they've checked everywhere else.
My expert friend says it's real
PSA/SGC/random other expert says it's real.
Dealer at random show says it's real

What do the experts here think?

How about price?
I did research
I asked a dealer who asked some other people.

What do you guys think?

Nah, the whole lot of you are old and crazy.
Who do I ask to get the opinion I want?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ

Always bogus question posing as a request for information. What it is is a request for validation and nothing more. Basically your wife asking "do I look fat in this?". Only one answer is being sought.

[EYECOLLECTVINTAGE]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Always bogus question posing as a request for information. What it is is a request for validation and nothing more. Basically your wife asking "do I look fat in this?". Only one answer is being sought.

Thats exactly what it was. You need to go in the mush room

[Snapolit1]

Tickets are real, and worth what someone will pay.

Done and Done.


Gee, . . . .so what was the point of any of this? You needed your gentitals massaged by a board of angry old men?

[EYECOLLECTVINTAGE]

The point was I was looking for judgements on authenticity as I'd never seen this sheet before and couldn't find it.

I do appreciate your wisdom though on many subjects here. You seem very knowledgeable in many areas of the hobby.

[conor912]

Pretty interesting thread (in spots).

Would someone mind defining a proof, exactly?

[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by conor912

Would someone mind defining a proof, exactly?

Either a ticket that was never meant to be used or a ticket for a game that was never played.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities

Either a ticket that was never meant to be used or a ticket for a game that was never played.

+1 Also true

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by conor912

Pretty interesting thread (in spots).

Would someone mind defining a proof, exactly?

Conor,
Proof tickets are tickets with no seat or row numbers printed on them. Frequently they were used as ticket salesman samples. They would be shown to potential ticket customers as samples of tickets that the company was capable of producing.
It also should be noted that these tickets are frequently found in entire ticket strips with multiple tickets, not unlike the strip that has been shown in this thread.

Historically, they typically are less desirable than an actual ticket with seat/row numbers to the ticket collector. That being said, the World Series strip that Stephen has is interesting because of age and it contains a significant game of historic notoriety.

FWIW, if I were Stephen I wouldn't separate the tickets as I see them as possibly being more unusual if kept intact. My thinking would be that since they had survived over 80 years, why alter their appearance? If nothing else they look cool for display or possibly being framed. Just my 2 cents...

[RedsFan1941]

the other primary use of ticket proofs was to spot any errors in text or graphics during the printing process. a sheet of tickets would be designed, then printed so the printers could “proof” the content for errors. because these weren’t meant to used for admission to the event, there was no need to add seat and row numbers, because that involved an extra step in the printing process.