1980-81 Minnesota North Stars Postcards Hockey Forum

looking at this card closely the signiture is not part of the printed picture so it may be real and not a facsimuly.

Considering there are 2 members who contributed scans for this set, and both have autographed versions, do you think that the set was actually distributed pre-autographed?

i am thinking that origanally the cards came un autographed and were handed out or sold during games and signed when the fans meet the players. the card pictured and the card i have with the autograph is just enough diffrent to say that it is a real auto. 

They definitely are real autos. The pic you provided vs the pic of the card already uploaded here have enough differences to show that they are not facsimile autographs.

The question simply becomes how were they distibuted. Maybe your non-auto one was some sort of overrun extra. We just don't know enough either way yet to make a decision.

I'm hopeful someone else can weigh in on this.

for now i will just list them in my collection as one hand signed in black and the other will be as non signed. but i would take the facsimaly off the set becuse they are not but it did say it when i went to edit the card thank you for the help

FWIW, I have the copmlete set of 24 postcards and they are all facsimile autographs, same as described by Beckett: https://www.beckett.com/hockey/1980-81/north-stars-postcards/

a facsimile is part of the printed card correct? the becket does say they were facsimile autograped along the bottom. the ink appers on my card to not be part of the print and i also have one without the autograph. mine might be one non facsimilies autographes that was signed by the player. Does the beckett also mentiom the unsigned set?