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Posted By: Hankron

I have only one T206 (Harry Pattee) to my name, but a close examination of the cards would likely determine which cards were reproductions of photographs and which, if any, were reproductions of sketches. Realize that a card could have been made from a sketch based on a photogrpah, or based on a artisticly enhansed photograph (perhaps including an artist drawing and coloring over the photograph). Casually looking at some of the action shots, it seems that some of the cards were made from sketches or significantly embellished photographs. Even the cards obviously made from photographs (usually the portraits) were likely altered and otherwise embelished by the artist or printer before reproduction. Even with the 1950s or 60s Topps cards, the original photographs used were often altered and embellished. The player pictures on the 1957 Topps Football cards, as an example, were made from flexichromes. Flexichrome was a photograph that was handcolored with gaudy colors.