Help Identifying Don Newcombe Card
 

Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>Have any of you ever seen a card / premium like this before? It has some similarities to standard 5 x 7 team issue photos. But it is on much stiffer, thicker paper, is glossy on both sides, and has a lengthy biography and stats on the back. Oh, and it's in color too.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1221695499.JPG"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1221695514.JPG">

Help Identifying Don Newcombe Card
 

Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Glen will know....

Help Identifying Don Newcombe Card
 

Posted By: <b>Glen V</b><p>Sorry, no idea here. Maybe a team issue - there are lots of those and the SCD doesn't list most of them.

Help Identifying Don Newcombe Card
 

Posted By: <b>Bob Lemke</b><p>I can definitively say I never saw this type of card during my years working on the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards.<br /><br />Call me a cynic, but I don't think it's contemporary with Newk's Brooklyn playing days. Does anybody have the Golden Stamp book of the Dodgers handy to compare this photo with?

Help Identifying Don Newcombe Card
 

Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>Bob, you're a cynic. The card shows Newk's stats only through 1955. Unless it was a deliberate forgery, I think that means it's from 1956. If someone was making a modern set (without intending to deceive), it should show his stats through the end of his career. At least, I think it should.<br /><br />By the way, it is 5x7.

Help Identifying Don Newcombe Card
 

Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>When I first saw it I thought to myself "more contemporary tribute card"....maybe 70's-80's? and I could be totally wrong.....

Help Identifying Don Newcombe Card
 

Posted By: <b>Phil Garry</b><p>The 2008 Beckett Almanac (Nolan Ryan & Babe Ruth are on the cover) has lots of team issues catalogued and might be the best bet to try. I have one but am at work now and it is at home.

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Posted By: <b>Bob Lemke</b><p>that the Newk picture is NOT the same as the 1955 Dodgers Golden Stamps (though it looks like it could have been an "outtake"). <br /><br />The SCBC lists a set of black-and-white Dodgers photo pack, with the same format of name and team in blank-backed 5x7.<br /><br />I'm not saying that it is was a fake created to deceive, perhaps it is some collector's tribute to the World Champion 1955 Dodgers, hence the stats only through 1955.<br /><br />I just have a healthy suspicion about any alleged 1950s item, especially from a team as popular as the Bums, that was not seen in my 20+ years of catalging.

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Posted By: <b>Dave Hornish</b><p>I think cards like this were discussed here a while back. It looks familiar and that may be why. I would search/scroll the forum.