T206 Original Photos - Snodgrass & Dots Miller

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Originally Posted by wonkaticket

Found these kicking around the net...sorry if you have them already Scott.




Cheers,

John

John, that Wilson is a good example of 'almost, but not quite'. There have been several times where someone has claimed that the T206 'artists' took an 'almost' photo and modified it somewhat to come up with the final T206 image. In most cases we've eventually found the actual photo, which ended up being an exact match. The artists for the T206 set were certainly skilled craftsmen, but they weren't free-handing very much of their work.

Instead, we find that many players had a standard pose that we see examples of repeated over the years. For instance, you can find a zillion examples of Ed Reulbach's famous 'follow-through' pose - all very similar, and spread out over his entire career. Many of them could mistaken as the original photo used for his T206 art - especially some from his Federal League days, which would, of course, be impossible.