Addie Joss Jersey card on Ebay

[mantlefan]

Who in his right mind slices up an Addie Joss uni?? Stupid.

[Bill77]

I remember back before Fleer went bankrupt they purchased the oldest authenticated Babe Ruth jersey and used it for cards. They said at the time that by making cards out of it more people would be able to see it than if it was in a private collection. It had to be the dumbest thing I had ever read at the time and thought they should have donated it to the Hall of Fame or even displayed it somewhere like Yankee Stadium.

I currently have cards that claim to have pieces of Honus Wagner's pants and Sam Crawford's bat. There is no way to prove it one way or the other but if it is true it is a shame that the card companies did that with any of the prewar materials.

[joshleland]

https://auction.lelands.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=84504

here they are. Addie Joss' pants. I am not surprised they are calling it a jersey card. Its been done many times before. Through the years these cards have often been cut from very low quality pieces: bats with little or no use, pants rather than jerseys. There were some fakes done many years ago with the older companies but the current crop have cleaned up their act since.

However, they have also used beautiful things that make me sad. Many years ago a real Babe Ruth jersey we sold (kills me) and a beautiful Jim Thorpe jacket that came from the family (Mastronet). Its an ethical quandry. Its a public auction but in a few cases its tragic.

[darwinbulldog]

That was quick.

[iwantitiwinit]

That Joss card says #6/10. The swatch at a maximum is 1 inch x 2 inches so the total area of the pants used for the cards is only 1 inch x 20 inches or 20 sq inches. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REST OF ADDIE'S PANTS!!!!????

[iowadoc77]

Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

That Joss card says #6/10. The swatch at a maximum is 1 inch x 2 inches so the total area of the pants used for the cards is only 1 inch x 20 inches or 20 sq inches. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REST OF ADDIE'S PANTS!!!!????

Saved for another card issue supposedly
Print run is huge for modern cards so in that set they only made 10 for manufactured scarcity.
My opinion is that at some point people will come forward with the truth about how all this was handled. There is no way that all these bat cards and jersey cards are legit. And I personally hate the whole process. Throwing a wagner bat into the chipper to make cards with slivers of it. Ludicrous.

[itslarry]

If people hate it so much why don't they just buy it themselves?
Biased on the collections here there are plenty of rich people that could afford it and then donate it themselves.
Topps is a company, they buy things to make money, not preserve because no one else is wants to step up.
I'd rather own a piece then some old dude have it locked away in his collection to never see the light of day.

But to each there own.