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Juliebut make Black Sox collectors salivate, cannot be truly uncatalogued. The one of Cicotte and Weaver clowning in the dugout was a $400 (sic!) copy of the $1000 original seller decided not to sell me at the last minute--and he took his sweet time making me a copy, and put, like, not even "Kodak" on the back. I have NO IDEA who took it, and have never seen it anywhere else. But HE has the original...
The extreme close=up of Joe Jackson's face came from Leland's, who thought it was a "Brace photo" because Brace printed it and put his stamp on it sometime in the '50s. His daughter (he's dead now) might know who the original photographer was. They also thought the "C" on his cap stood for "Chicago." The photo was obviously taken about 1913, and there's no way George Brace took it, or that he was playing for Chicago (who had very few "C"s on their caps--if any--before 1920). At first, I thought these things were amusing (though I had to pay a lot for it because others believed what they said), but now that some years have gone by, and nobody has ever seen another, I'm getting mighty curious...