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AnonymousI guess "If the ears don't fit, it ain't legit" (which I like and agree with)....is something akin to "If he hit, you must acquit"....but I digress.....
I totally agree...and have said so in the past....the ears do it for me....Joe had some big ole ears now....and this fellow doesn't measure up......but for the buyers sake....I really would like it to be him......$2,800.00 is a chunk a change for a $5.00 photo (maybe what it's worth if it ain't Jackson).
Well.....what the newspaper account would do...would prove Joe Jackson played in Zanesville....lending to that reasonable doubt thing...growing smaller...much like the ears. The bigger question NOW is.....is this photo from 1923.....with my new discovery of the year notation on the photo that was sent to me....I first must have the question of when that notation was put on the photo.....Is it a period notation...or something added recently. If it's period....then in my opinion...the buyer paid entirely too much money for the photo....cause in 1919....my records show ole Joe Jackson as a member of the Chicago White Sox....and if it's 1929.......ah....they still paid too much money for the photo....cause Joe Jackson was a pretty hefty guy in 1929. The buyer really has to pray that someone here or elsewhere finds a reference to Joe Jackson in Zanesville in 1923 and hopefully find a copy of this picture in a 1923 edition of that paper.....else the buyer pretty much has a worthless photo. Very hard to move a photo such as this without very good provenance.
Mike Nola
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