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Posted By: Rhys

I won several of these, but only a few of the ones I really wanted because the prices went pretty high. However, think of this. I sold one of only 2 or 3 known Matty McIntyre autographs about 4 years ago. I deal quite extensively in vintage autographs (I have a Dummy Hoy on ebay right now). It was a cut in bad shape and I got $285 on ebay. He died very young in the 1920's and his autograph is comparably rare to people like Ed Delahanty and Eddie Plank with. like I said, about 3-4 known examples in the entire hobby. While McIntyre is not a hall of famer, he is a fairly well known player of the era and his signature is on several advanced collectors want lists. I compared the "Matty" that was used to describe himself in the pictures to the scan I have of the cut I sold and it is the same hand. Matty McIntyre is the one who made these notations in the scrapbook. Therefore, any of the pictures of McIntyre where he mentions himself in the picture is essentially an autograph, same as if Babe Ruth signed a ball "Babe". It may not be a full name signature, but it is as good as most of the collectors are ever going to get who want his autograph.

I won about 4 of the self identifying photos and already have people I know will buy them at a price increase. So everyone that won any of these not only got a nice baseball photo, but the ones with the white writing on them also got handwriting of one of the early 20th century's rarer baseball autographs.

I dont know if this was a factor in other people bidding, but it is the reason that I paid over $100 for several of the photos of just McIntyre.

Rhys