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Posted By: Hankron

Ryan, I didn't realize you were the seller. As I earlier noted, I thought your auction description was on the mark. Also, I own one of Speaker cards (as it's real photo, it falls within my collecting sphere) and think it's a swell card. As a photograph specialist, I think it stands on its own as a sharp, though smaller than what I am used to, vintage Cuban photograph of a Hall of Famer.

The gray hair is an indication of the card's, or at least the image (meaning the card maker may have used an earlier image of Speaker). Speaker always had a mature look. By the time he retired, circa 1928, he looked plain old. His face looked like Mickey Mantle's knees felt. This included lots of grey hair. This image, with just a distinguished touch of grey and a more youthful face, would suggest that the image is several years earlier, perhaps from the 1910s.