Yeah, 1910 Dana Photo Postcard.
I've had some of these sell for over $100, but it has to be one of the clearer or more important shots from the fight. It helps if both of their faces are visible or if it's a nice crisp overhead crowd shot with decent clarity of the fight action in the ring.
Individual clear shots featuring Johnson in the ring, Pre-Fight, also seem to do pretty well.
I wouldn't rely on the numbering if you are one of those set completists either, unless it's from a complete pre-packaged album that Dana put together himself.
It seems like every album he put together was custom made with a different set of Postcard #'s................not to mention the bootlegs others made from his original photos, which are of the era, but basically real photos OF his photos cropped into a Postcard format. Sometimes you can even see the thumbtacks cropped into the photo holding the original image up on the board being photographed by the bootleggers, or maybe even Dana did these himself, when he didn't have access to his original negs...............he did tend to photograph and develop a lot of these on-site at the event to sell to fans.
Later on he would create custom albums to sell to customers or send to colleagues, newspapermen...........after the fight.
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