It’s fun to see new people discovering the book fifteen years after we released it (doesn’t seem that long but the calendar doesn’t lie). One update I can easily provide relates to the number of subjects in the set. When we wrote the book there were 521 known to us. Since then two more have been discovered. The first was Tug Wilson (Joe and I did an article in Old Cardbiard about this). To summarize, it turned out that half the poses of Joe Miller, himself a scarce card, were in fact Tug Wilson.I realized this one day by, of all things, looking at the book. In there we had an image of a glass plate negative of Tug Wilson. The more I looked at the image the more I could swear I had seen it before so I paged through all the poses and it turned out to be a pose with Joe Miller’s name on it. Then I took a look at all the Miller cards and half were Joe Miller and the other half were Tug Wilson. Because on 19th century cards the image governs whose card it is we had a new player. The second addition was Roscoe Coughlin. This one was easy, a card of his was discovered. In the book, based on lists inserted in packs to order N173s, we speculated as to what players might still be discovered. Coughlin was one of those so it was not a complete shock that a card of his was found. There may be others from that list out there—keep looking.
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