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Posted By: leon

Points well made so far, guys. Let me be devils advocate on the 1930 Ruth Goudey card, for a moment. For sake of argument why can't the item be a one-off prototype card? As I was speaking with Marshall last night I (or he, I don't remember) brought up the point about the trademarking of Big League Gum. Why couldn't it have only been a printer's idea that was put in a desk drawer after he came up with it? Then, 3 years later, he saw the card, showed it to management...they liked it and off to the races with the brand and trademarking. Is that too far fetched to be feasible? To state again, I don't think there's a snowball's chance of this card being real...but these points should at least be taken into account, pertaining to a possibility, for future reference of these kinds of items...