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Posted By: barrysloate

David- Corey and I went to Sotheby's together and explained that we were both baseball historians, and we were able to explain to them categorically why it couldn't be Creighton (the fact that he died in 1862 worked in our favor, among countless other points). Their photo experts also made it clear to us they had never even heard of Creighton before this image was consigned to them. But they refused to listen and adamantly refused to add to the description that it very well may not be and probably isn't Creighton. Frankly, they didn't even seem to care. They saw us as a couple of gnats who needed to be swatted away.

Corey- no, I don't want to be first, thank you.