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davidcyclebackIt it has a coarse back and toning, that's consistant with it being an older photo.
A veteran autograph expert was selling a Smokey Joe Wood autograph photo showing a baby faced Wood in Red Sox uniform. The seller didn't realize that the photo was an original by Charles Conlon (clearly stamped and signed on back) and the photo itself was probably worth 10-15X more than a Wood autograph. The photo was quite the artifact, as Wood personized his autograph to the famous old-timer autograph collector Jeffrey Morey, and Morey wrote on the back something on the order of "Dear Mr Wood, please autograph this mail it back to me at your convenience. Thank you." This suggests Morey was mailing off original Conlon photos to get autographs!