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Originally Posted by Dewey
Baseball Magazine itself started in 1908. But not sure when the Spalding Guide/Baseball Magazine stamp dates to. It is not cataloged in Yee, Fogel, et al. There have been fakes of that stamp. Though it looks different than the one here: http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=193601)
There was a Baseball Magazine Ty Cobb edition in 1912, I think. |
I'm pretty sure the stamp is genuine. It is the brown/red color of the original version of the stamp (as opposed to the blue of the fakes) and the exterior frame of the stamp is different from the fakes.
That said, I.still have about 20 conflicting thoughts about what type this will end up being.
Did Conlon put this stamp on type 2's or 3's?
Is there a date range for when he used this stamp?
Other type 1 photos have newspaper date stamps that are 20 years after the photo was taken, so what is it that makes them type 1's? Is it the material used to make the photo?