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Originally Posted by Lordstan
Type 1 of Ford and Mantle. The back has a NY times stamp without a zip code. I know original NY times pics are rare as they haven't sold their pic archives. I have not seen any exemplars of other NYT stamps either. Any further ID help would be appreciated.
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Mark, This one was on the back of a photo of Eddie Stanky in action dated 7/4/51. I know I have some other examples scanned around here somewhere, but this was the first I could lay hands on. All of the ones that I have handled (single digits) originated in some way from a player's estate (this one from Stanky's) which leads me to believe they were given to the player photographed as a complimentary copy or perhaps upon request. As you say, the rest of the hard copies are still locked up tight in the archives, taunting John Rogers in his dreams
