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Posted By: leon

No disrespect to whomever Pat Quinn is but my educated guess is that it is going to be part of a notebook cover. For the most part if it has a name at the bottom and doesn't have cross hairs, it won't be a real proof...though I think the term "proof" really means a card in any stage up to completion (print experts can give the technical answer). But as you know Jim, proofs were used to align and further produce the end product. These notebook cover ones are on thinner stock too. So if it doesn't have cross hairs- strike one, if it does have his name on obverse- strike two, and if it is on thinner stock- strike three it's part of a notebook cover. Hope this helps...


edited to add that what you have are in fact generally labeled proofs, but they aren't even close....

and my example of the misnomer- notebook cut out aka proof