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Posted By: Nick

Hello,
I buy and sell baseball related items locally and occasionally I get a call for something other than a box full of 90' Topps...

A gentleman who owns a local art studio called and said he had "what appears to be a printing plate of some kind, made out of metal attached to wood. The plate has the following on it: the players name(Mike Kelly), $10,000 and the words old judge". He said the plate looks very old. He said the metal looked to be brass, but he was not sure.

As most of us know that is a brief description of an OJ $10,000 Mike King Kelly card(N173 I would guess.)

My question is: Does a printing plate for this card
exist? And if it does how can one properly ID a genuine example. And lastly what is it worth?

Thanks for the help.

Nick