Pre-1900 or Reprint? Help Appreciated...

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by aelefson

I am probably wrong, but is there a chance these were cut from the 1920s era team posters showing OJ images? The print still looks off to me so maybe they are cutouts of a reprint poster?

Alan

I don’t think you’re wrong, because I was thinking the same thing. I think those posters were on newsprint or something similar, and it looks from the pictures like somebody cut out the pictures and glued them to cardboard. Thus I don’t think these are modern, but neither are they 19th century. They’re certainly not real Old Judges.

[Tanman7baseball]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

I don’t think you’re wrong, because I was thinking the same thing. I think those posters were on newsprint or something similar, and it looks from the pictures like somebody cut out the pictures and glued them to cardboard. Thus I don’t think these are modern, but neither are they 19th century. They’re certainly not real Old Judges.

Interesting. So essentially these Old Judge cut out images don’t have any value correct?

[Hankphenom]

I'd be very surprised if any but the Obak aren't fake. They have all the earmarks of the faked "aging" of Negro League and other memorabilia in the last several years. Guessing they came out of Ohio originally.

[Tanman7baseball]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

I'd be very surprised if any but the Obak aren't fake. They have all the earmarks of the faked "aging" of Negro League and other memorabilia in the last several years. Guessing they came out of Ohio originally.

So just to finalize this. I am going to retract my winning bid from this auction and tell them that the cards are not of the era. Good idea?

[benjulmag]

The photo quality strongly suggests they are not period issues, i.e., they are fakes.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by Tanman7baseball

So just to finalize this. I am going to retract my winning bid from this auction and tell them that the cards are not of the era. Good idea?

Sounds good to me. As noted above, my best guess is that they are from the 1920s, cut out from newsprint or poster stock and glued to cardboard. They're certainly not real Old Judges or any other 19th century cards. I doubt that the person who made them (possibly many decades ago) had any intention to deceive anybody; they just had these images that looked like old-time baseball cards, and they made their own "cards" out of the images.