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Originally Posted by oldjudge
The Ann St address was the sole determinant in the price going where it did. Otherwise, it is a $35,000 piece. The CdV with the ad on the back for Chadwick's 1869 book, followed by the Ann St address trade card, are the earliest Cinc images.
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How do you know that? Can you say conclusively that P&S did not operate two locations simultaneously before expanding one (Nassau Street) so as to enable them to consolidate the other one (Ann Street) within it? Absent some dispositive proof that the Nassau Street location was not in existence prior to 1870, I will continue to believe it more likely that the black baseball verso on the Red Stockings P&S denoted the first printing, the black ice skate verso the second printing and the red baseball verso the third printing. Also, it has been my observation that the black baseball verso P&S Red Stockings as a group exhibit noticeably better contrast than the red baseball versos, which is consistent with the belief they were issued earlier than the red versos. As to the contrast of the black ice skate verso Red Stockings, I recall examining only one --the one just sold by Legendary (which at one time I owned). Its contrast, while nice, does not compare to the contrast of the finest black baseball versos.
Also, with regard to price, I do not believe that its realized price would have been materially different had it had the baseball Nassau Street verso.