[Runscott]

Jason, I don't know all the details, but I think there is probably some documentation somewhere indicating that the modern 'Sport Magazine' got hold of a bunch of negatives or prints, as well as slugs, and, if it was negatives, in the 1950's began making high-quality prints, and created new back-dated slugs (if they weren't using old ones) to put on them, then WWP got hold of them and added their stamps. I would bet a round of beers that old slugs were not removed from old prints and then glued to new ones, and I also doubt that 'Sport Magazine' obtained a pile of negatives and a pile of old slugs that happened to match the negatives. It would be more likely that 'Sport' actually acquired a pile of original prints along with their slugs, then the WWP stamp was added. No one has suggested that up to now, but it would help explain why there is only one copy of this print. I don't know about the other prints that have been referenced - were there multiples of some of them?

This is all information that I'm gleaning from emails, phone conversations, PM's and Rhys' comments. I had no knowledge of any of this until recently, but I also have no reason to doubt it. It doesn't change my thinking about this particular print, but if there are a bunch of them out there with the same quality paper, image and slugs, and they are definitely 1950's prints, then it makes sense that this one is as well, despite how it looked and felt when I handled it.

One thing that would help would be if someone could show one of these newer prints with its slug, alongside the original print and its slug. As I mentioned earlier, I haven't even seen this Waner brothers image before, in any form. You would think that there would be multiple copies of each of these images, if they were made from the original negatives.