Can anyone identify this Lipset eBay auction?

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Posted By: Mike (18colt)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31719&item=2754434406

(If I didn't link it correctly, just copy and paste it).

Apparently, Lew Lipset can't identify this. Anyone out there have any thoughts on info on it?

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anonymous poster trying to post under somebody else's name

Elliot

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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Posted By: Eric (goudeyhunter)

My guess is that it's a 1920's strip card. It may have been produced by one of the other 20's W-designated manufacturers. Bob Lemke may know..

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Posted By: Eric (goudeyhunter)

I only looked at the style of this card previously, and didn't take time to note who the player was. Bill O'Hara played two years of MLB, and was with the NY Giants in 1909 only. With that, I don't have a clue who produced the card. I'd ask Bob Lemke, he tends to get a lot of uncateloged stuff, and may have some background on it.

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Posted By: runscott

Lipset says he doesn't know what it is. If Lew Lipset doesn't know what it is, I doubt anyone will.
...but Brian Daniels probably has the complete set...in triplicate.

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Posted By: MW

I think Lew was getting warm with his "folk art" analysis.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I think it is a consolation prize from a punchboard gambling device.

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Posted By: Bob Lemke

Sorry to disappoint all y'all, but that's a new one on me, too. I like Lew's theory of it being some sort of home-made replica.

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Posted By: TBob

it is a homemade replica card of a T206 O'Hara. "Folk art" is exactly what it is. Apparently Keith O. is in to one-of-a-kind cards, real or cinderellas.