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Topnotchsy
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(edit: somehow managed to post this in another thread when I meant to start a new thread... here's the new thread lol)
I would love to show a scan but unfortunately I don't know that such a thing exists...
Over the years we've seen a million on-card signatures, as well well as tons of cut (and sticker) signatures. While some may prefer one type over the other, I think that most would agree that you can find nice examples of each. On the other hand, I do not recall a single example of a dual cut/non-cut that ever really appealed to me.
I think there's only one really important criteria to make such a card work, and that is symmetry and balance. Looking at the example below (to me) it's quite simple why it does not look that great. One side has a gorgeous design and picture of the player and a signature signed in gold ink. The other side is a very large blue signature in a frame with no picture. While it pairs two all-time great center fielders, it is just not a very appealing card (same could be said of other cards in the set, including the Babe Ruth.
Now the challenge for this is that this means that a lot more must be considered when purchasing the autographs including the size of the autograph, the paper it is written on etc. That said, I think that if someone ever did this right we could see some really nice looking cards that combine players with those who have already passed on. (Whether it may just be better to have the living player sign an index card or something and make it a dual cut is something I could hear both sides on...)
(Edit: Note that the card below sold for around $500 while a 1/1 Ichiro auto's in the set (similar to just the Ichiro side of this card) sold for $850. It could easily be argued that the Mays autograph actually hurt the value of the card dramatically.)
I would love to show a scan but unfortunately I don't know that such a thing exists...
Over the years we've seen a million on-card signatures, as well well as tons of cut (and sticker) signatures. While some may prefer one type over the other, I think that most would agree that you can find nice examples of each. On the other hand, I do not recall a single example of a dual cut/non-cut that ever really appealed to me.
I think there's only one really important criteria to make such a card work, and that is symmetry and balance. Looking at the example below (to me) it's quite simple why it does not look that great. One side has a gorgeous design and picture of the player and a signature signed in gold ink. The other side is a very large blue signature in a frame with no picture. While it pairs two all-time great center fielders, it is just not a very appealing card (same could be said of other cards in the set, including the Babe Ruth.
Now the challenge for this is that this means that a lot more must be considered when purchasing the autographs including the size of the autograph, the paper it is written on etc. That said, I think that if someone ever did this right we could see some really nice looking cards that combine players with those who have already passed on. (Whether it may just be better to have the living player sign an index card or something and make it a dual cut is something I could hear both sides on...)
(Edit: Note that the card below sold for around $500 while a 1/1 Ichiro auto's in the set (similar to just the Ichiro side of this card) sold for $850. It could easily be argued that the Mays autograph actually hurt the value of the card dramatically.)