Yesterday's card was sold by a seller with other Weiser and Idaho postcards that were postmarked 1920 and 1921 and were identical in style of front and back (white border real photo cards with same photo paper).
The real shocker here is the price for a card that was issued late in Johnson's career and is a low quality reproduction of the image on the original postcard which likely was issued c.1909-1911. When these real photo copy cards first hit the market in a couple of auctions, they were stand-alone lots. Here, this one was auctioned alongside others that depicted scenes and/or postmarks indicating a c. 1920 issue date.
So...while it is a really scarce postcard, it is, in essence, an early reprint of a card of a HOFer in a town team uniform!
What does this mean for the price of a Barr-Farnham Walter Johnson postcard, which was issued in 1909 as part of the set depicting individual Washington major league players on each card?
And no I don't own one -- wish I did!
Here are what the Barr-Farnham cards look like:
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