E91 likenesses
I've written an article about the E91 cards and came to the conclusion that most of the artwork of the E91A set and about half of the E91B appears to based (at least the facial portion) on photos that can be seen in other photo based issues of the era, including T204's. Jeff's post points out that this can be pretty obvious and strikingly similiar depiction, whereas the Brown, (if I remember correctly--don't have the article in front of me), is also an example of a card that utilized a photo of the player, but may have been less artistically sucessful in generating an accurate likeness.
Contacted Old Cardboard about my article...they were not too enthused--thought I would have to provide more images of the various photographic cards that were used to create them. I have the whole E91A set, and I did most of my research/comparision utilizing that great Classic Baseball Cards book issued in the mid 80's. In general E91's get no respect, but I believe they should be considered in a different light. Someday maybe I will just post the article here.
Brian
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