I still say the supplement and the T206 are two different photos. It's my belief the T206 image was taken while Irv Young was playing for Boston (NL) in 1907. Check out the scans below. The E97 (which depicts Irv, not Cy) shows Irv wearing a uniform that matches Boston's in '07. Now check out the collar and the belt on the T206 and compare them to the E97. It's a perfect match. The collar is much different on the supplement and the belt doesn't look the same either. Also, if the T206 artist was working with the supplement and not the E97 photo, why didn't he trace over the existing letters? Instead, he did a sloppy job painting the letters over the Boston jersey. Irv Young, by the way, was also known as "Young Cy," which might explain why Cy's name ended up on the card. I'm curious why collectors consider this card to depict the older "Cy." He didn't join Boston (NL) until 1911 and the E97s came out a year or two earlier ...
Last edited by Chris Counts; 02-02-2012 at 07:13 AM.
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