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JoeSteven, 1st I have a correction, the photo is 40 x 60 inches. I have 5 others that are 30 x 40 inches. They are Cobb, Heilman, Cochrane, Crawford, Schoolboy Rowe as well as the Bridges I posted..
This is the story:
J.P. McCarthy was a popular radio personality in the Detroit area at the time. This was in the early 1980's. He has since passed away. Anyway I was listening to his radio show and he was advertising a sports auction at a Knights of Columbus hall in Bay City, Michigan. My son and I drove up there for the auction and met Walt Graveline, a 92 year old man who owned the pictures.
The photos had been hung in his clothing store for several years. Actually no one else showed up for the auction and I offered 1 price for the 6 photos and he accepted. He also had some T206 cards that were not for sale and showed them to me at his home. He told me the photos were produced in the 1930's using those large cameras of those days.
He had taped his name and address over the original labels that were on the photos. This damaged the labels. I printed new labels to look just like the originals on gold paper. They read:
Detroit News
Photo
Mural by Multi-color.
That is the story.
Joe
Ty Cobb, Spikes flying!