ID Help - Anyone ever seen one of these?

[CobbSpikedMe]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

Andy, we wouldn't swear they're "period" (nor would we insist they're not). The font on those strips
always made us suspicious about whether they're as old as they seem -- it looks a bit "modern" to us,
but a typography historian could tell us how old that font style actually is.

Hi Butch. I took the liberty of looking into the font style and believe it to be Garamond or at least a variation of Garamond. Claude Garamond died in 1561 so this serif style has been around for quite some time. I don't think it would preclude the cards from being produced circa 1910.

They were obviously attached to something at one time, hence the paper loss on the bottoms of all of the examples shown so far. But what was it? I agree they weren't from a commercially made board game since they are all of varying sizes. But I also don't see them as being from some homemade game that someone created either. They would've had to have been printed at a professional printers shop and machine cut (in my opinion).

They also all have what looks like dried adhesive on the bottoms where they were attached to something and the adhesive doesn't look like it was applied by hand to me. It could've been, but I don't think so.

And why does my Chance have another Chance front printed on the back bottom of the card?

Just thinking out loud and not expected any real answers here. But I am interested in opinions still. Oh, one more thing...has there ever been a second example known of a particular player or are all of these one of a kind at this point?