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AnonymousI just went back to my original email messages from the seller....and have come to discover.......I actually got this photo from two sources...... One of the sources sent me the photo and on the bottom of the photo is written in pen...."1929" or "1919"....looking at it....I'm leaning towards the "1919" based on how the person that wrote it wrote his "1". The second source (from the seller) looks like the "1929" or "1919" has been wiped off the bottom of the photo...either with white out....or it has been rescanned to send to me without notation of the year.
Understand...."I ain't here to start no trouble...I'm just here to do the Super Bowl shuffle". But it makes me wonder what's going on here......who wrote the "1929" or "1919".....and why was it not on the second photo sent to me????
I have both of these photos if anyone would like to see what was send to me.....send me an email to shoeless@blackbetsy.com and I will forward to you.
This means....if the year notation on the photo is a period dated notation....then we also have to look at newspaper accounts from 1919 (obviously it's not Jackson in 1919...but that quite possibly will tell us who IT IS!!). We also have to look at 1929, but if it's 1929....I can, with almost 100 percent accuracy..... tell you it's not Joe Jackson....this guy is no where near as big as Joe Jackson was in 1929...not even close......... But at this point...I want to know what this guy's name is regardless....I'm curious now..............
Again....I'm not trying to start any trouble.......just trying to come up with answers............
Something else to ponder.............
Mike
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