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Help identifying this Unitas piece UPDATE

AricAric Posts: 757 ✭✭
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I'm looking for help identifying what this is. It is taller and thinner than a standard card. The back is blank white. It is a thin card stock. Both sides have a gloss with the front having slightly more. It does not appear to be trimmed or cut from something larger. The top corners appear to have a factory round cut. My first instinct would be a bookmark but it is shorter than what I would consider a standard bookmark.

Any help?

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  • AricAric Posts: 757 ✭✭
    bump
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,949 ✭✭✭✭
    The photo is from his 1957 Topps RC... that's about all I know. image
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭✭
    looks like it had some sort of a stamp on it at one point too........

    never seen it before but very cool!

    IMF
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  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    Colts won the championship in 1958 and 1959...maybe a 1958 issue?
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭✭
    I'd try contacting Huggins & Scott Auctions for assistance...They are located in the Balt/D.C. area and specialize in Orioles/Colts oddball issues.

    Good Luck!

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  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    I've never seen it before. It says world champion Colts on the front,
    so I would guess it's from '59 or '60.
  • AricAric Posts: 757 ✭✭
    I received a response from Huggins and Scott. They too have never seen the card and are interested in putting it in their next auction.

    As ironmanfan indicated there does appear to be a stamp in the blank white spot. I'm going to rescan it tonight and fool around with the levels to see if I can make out any of the text.
  • AricAric Posts: 757 ✭✭
    I wanted to update this thread. I took the card to the National in August and showed it to the biggest football dealers there. Surprisingly, no one had seen the card before. They did all agree that it was definitely from the 50's-60's and not a modern piece. I was offered $200 for it on the spot. I declined the offer and decided instead to list it with Scott & Huggins Auctions. They were at the show, so I left it with them to be listed in their September auction. I was hoping they would be able to use some of their Baltimore contacts to identify it. Nevertheless, I was excited to receive their catalogue in the mail last week. They gave me a nice spot on the second page of the football section, right in the middle of the page. Unfortunately, they were unable to identify it.

    Here's the listing in the catalogue.

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    And here's the link if anyone wants to follow. It ends this Wednesday. The opening bid was $150 and its already up to $180.

    Auction Link

    And here's where I found this card.

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    That's right, I stumbled on this bad boy on eBay one night and decided to take a chance on it. Because it was also listed in the Vintage Sports Memorabilia > Photos sections, I actually thought it was larger and more like a photo with a border on top.

    After receiving the card, I enquired with the seller if they knew anything about the card. And they replied,"I found the card in my attic when i bought my house and the people are now deceased." The sellers address was West Virginia, not far from Baltimore.

    This has certainly been one of my most exciting finds on eBay and I'm hoping it turns into my most profitable.


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