N-167 Old Judge Proofs

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Posted By: Hankron

I'm assuming that you are talking about the local studio cabinet cards showing Old Juge poses. Your question was overly broad, but I will note that the original Old Judge images were made by local photography studios. Often times a local studio(in Kansas City, Philadelphia, for examples) took the photographs of the local players and often for other teams when they passed through. Some of the these 'proofs' (whether proof is an entirely accurate term is debatable, though I don't object to its use as a convenient term), are easy to identify because they have the Old Judge drystamp (embossed/no ink and usually on the image itself), though others do not.