Crop/Negative cards?

[BrianShaw]

One camera store I visited occasionally in the 60s had a "crop Mat" provided by their photofinisher on the counter. you could send in a negative for printing and specify the desired Crop number.

When the lab I once used stopped processing film they gave me all of their crop cards, but when I asked for the crop mat they told me it was already gone. Those were really handy when not carding negs yourself. Great visualization tool within the given constraints.

 

[BrianShaw]

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5271792A/en

 

[wiltw]

Ted@NewHopePhoto.com

One email just sent at 11:15pm PDT with Front scans of cards. A PDF describes the dimensions of the cards.
A second email was set a few minutes later with Back scans of cards.