A simple TTM index card idea. (Ozzie Smith & Joe Medwick cut sig added)

frankhardy

As many of you know, I have been doing through the mail autos for nearly a year. I do mostly Cardinals. Every time that I send a card out to be signed I always send at least one and sometimes two index cards to be signed as well. I just love the simplicity of a signed index card. I have dozens and dozens of them. Well, I got to thinking about doing something very simple in order to make them a little more attractive. Nothing major, just something simple. Here is what I have come up with.

I thought about just printing a Cardinals logo somewhere on the card to add just a little bit to it. I did a little research and dug up every Cardinals logo from every era. I ended up using the appropriate logo for the player that signed. The first logo is from 1929 to 1948. The second logo is from 1949 to 1955. The third logo is from 1956 to 1966. The fourth logo is from 1967 to 1997. I don't have the fourth logo picture below (1998 to present) because I don't have any index cards from the modern players. Some will sign trading cards, but I have yet to get a signed index card from an active player. Anyway, I absolutely love what I have come up with. I would just like to see what you guys think.

I have pictured a duplicate of each index card - one without the logo and the second with the logo. I just used a simple HP photo printer to do this with.

MeteoriteGuy

I like it. It will also help some guy 75 years from now figure out who the signature is.

MeteoriteGuy

Opps...didn't answer the question. I would use the logo that goes with the players' playing time.

Reese3333

Great idea! Those look very nice

rube26105

<Opps...didn't answer the question. I would use the logo that goes with the players' playing time>


agree-that will help narrow it down to an era one of these days if they arent dated,

frankhardy

Thanks guys. (That was disguised as a bump )

DavidPuddy

That's a great Idea. They look great with the era correct logo.

Great stuff

alifaxwa2

This site has all the logos you would ever need.


I made this one a few years ago. I have some better looking ones that I started making this past summer. I will scan a few of those tonight



edit: fixed the link

frankhardy

Yep. That's where I got my logos. Very nice index card, by the way. Did he sign it first, or did you print everything after he signed it? With mine, all of these were signed first, and then I printed the logo. It amazes me that something so simple can make such a difference. I like the idea of a simple signed index card, but adding something as simple as a logo or a helmet really adds to it.

alifaxwa2

The Roetlisberger was printed and sent to him that way. For TTM stuff I print it out first, that way I can force where they sign on the card.

The other variety, which I will scan and post tonight was done both ways. Explaining that one won't make sense without images.

tennesseebanker

Frank, Great Idea ! I agree the Ic's are a lot more attractive with the logo's.
I have heard some modern players have actually been told not to sign IC's because of fear of identity theft.

baseballfan

looks good
i like the 1956 to 1966 logo best

stormsurge

I think they look great with the logos - good idea

alifaxwa2

These are the ones I have printing to send out TTM. I always print the team logo out at about 35% opacity with photoshop, so that it has a faded look to it and can be written over with a sharpie or a ball point.
The only problem with this, is what happened to Steve Blass. Him and few other guys have signed elsewhere on the IC thinking they weren't supposed to sign on the logo. I can't complain too much since technically they were trying to do what they thought I wanted. Plus, they can write small neatly, so its not too bad. I will now be adding one of those small SIGN HERE stickers on the IC.






Now, when I go to games to get autos IP, I don't want to print a card out of every player, since that is time consuming. So I just print out the faded logo. When I get home, I go back into photoshop and add the players name and picture to other side of the card. Works really well.

frankhardy

Those are very, very nice. I love the light logo and the player signing over it, however, I can see the problem with the player thinking that the sender might not want it that way.

zep33

all of those look fantastic - great job guys

frankhardy

What are your thoughts on this? I recently got this one in a collection. I am thinking about cutting out the signature and pasting it to an index card with a logo. I think I like the simplicity of it rather than with his picture. If the picture was from his playing days, I might think differently.

alifaxwa2

since its already a cut, i don't see any reason why not to.

frankhardy

Well, here it is. This is what I come up with after a lot of trial and error. I like the simplicity of it.

alifaxwa2

frankhardy

I had a piece of paper signed by Ozzie Smith. I decided to make a cut signature out of it. Here it is.