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Max WederBill: I read your post as jest being mandated by you. I can only offer this tepid description:
More splendid than a half sheet of Gary Cooper in The Bengal Lancer, this card imports a sense of "Yee Hah" for the "Eee-Yah" erstwhile leader of the nobel beasts of the American League. A card to calm the soul of the savage beast. The travois of game-used bats suggests a much simpler time.
While Howard M. Taylor has retained copyright ("All Rights Reserved"), the art has a suggestion of an unknown work of JC Leyendecker (1874-1951) who was at this time going through his well known mid-life crisis, looking to escape from the pre-Rockwellian demands of the marketplace, and was looking to his art to create a whimsical sidebar to the approaching ravages of middle age. While we cannot confirm this provenance with certainty, and while we cannot suggest that this is the only, or indeed the best Howard M. Taylor postcard extant, we can offer that it is a card for the most discriminating of collectors.
I would thus be pleased to offer my services, but only as a grader of dust jackets for books, and only if compensated at my normal hourly rate. No contingency fee agreements (sorry Hal).