Any 33 Goudey experts out there?

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

Richard,

I would be interested to know whether the cards you have are around the normal size of 2 3/8 by 2 7/8 inches, or whether they seem to be a bit smaller than that on average, if you want to try measuring some of them.

Kevin,

I also saw Goudey cards that varied a bit in width from top to bottom, or in height from side to side. For the purposes of my measurements, I just sort of averaged across these variations. But I can see that such cases might indicate a potential trim job.

Your cut-off of 59mm (2.323 inches) by 72mm (2.835 inches) might be a good rule of thumb for raising a red flag about 1933 Goudey card alteration. In my sample of 240 cards, I found only 3 cards that were in the vicinity of 59mm in width, but I found 18 that were in the vicinity of 72mm in height. All of the other cards I measured were at least a half millimeter larger than those numbers in each dimension (based on my rounding off to the nearest 1/80th inch, which is about 0.3 millimeters).