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Originally Posted by Leon
Same image. The stamp is only a cartoonish looking drawing of the postcard. Look at how he is holding the ball and look at his glove....along with everything else.
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Do not disagree at all, but then, why the differences in the two images? Why not make them exactly the same if that actually was the intent?
The stamp has two horizontal stripes going around the top part of the player's socks, the Semon drawing only has one solid stripe/block. The belt showing on the Semon drawing is just a simple, rectangular shape, with no detail at all. But on the stamp, there is detail added, and definitely what looks like either belt loops or notches, as well as what appears to be the excess end piece of the belt that looks to be hanging down. it is definitely not the simple rectangular shape as shown on the Semon drawing. In addition, the Semon drawing shows the details of the sections/lines on the player's cap, as well as the brim being a dark color. But this time the stamp is less detailed, and shows no sections/lines on the cap, and also doesn't appear to show the brim of the cap as a different, dark color, merely the same light color as the cap, but with a shadow across the front edge of the brim that doesn't show in the Semon drawing. And you know how when somebody tries to show two different photos of someone, and claim they're the same person, it seems the first thing everybody else immediately chimes in on and points to is how the ears don't match up. Well, look at the image/outline of this player's left ear in relation to where the player's eyes are located. It sure as heck looks to me that the bottom of the player's earlobe on the Semon drawing goes farther/lower down on the player's face in relation to where his eyes are, than it does on the stamp. And then the shadow effect on the player's face is different as well. The Semon drawing clearly shows a curved facial line around the left side of the player's mouth, but there is no such facial line showing on the stamp image. Whoever the stamp's artist was, if he/she did use Semon's drawing as the basis for the stamp, they clearly, and purposely, made changes to the face that was on the Semon drawing.
Answer me this, if the drawing, not a photo but a drawing, by Semon is supposed to be the identical image used on the Youth's Companion stamp, why would the stamp's artist take the trouble to add/alter some details to the stamp drawing, but then also bother to remove some other details at the same time? That makes absolutely no logical sense at all. Unless maybe the stamp's artist didn't intend for the stamp's image to be Marquard, and made the various changes to make the stamp's image more generic. OR, maybe the stamp's artist did use the base image from the Semon drawing, but then actually did make some additional changes to the shape and size of the player's nose, head, and face on the stamp's image so that it did start to look a little like Ruth after all? Though there are some similarities in the face of the player on the stamp to both Ruth and Marquard, there definitely to my eyes looks to be more similarities to Ruth, much more.
I have had a copy of this stamp for years, but never tried examining it with a loupe or magnifying glass, nor tried viewing a much larger and blown-up image of it, like the one Frank posted in this thread, to see that it really did look exactly like Marquard. I always just took and believed what I had heard from others, and read in the SCD catalogs, that the image/player was Marquard and not Ruth. I am not so sure now, and can see where Frank is coming from with his question.