Buy/Sell/Trade - November 2004

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Posted By: hankron

I just finished a 50 page staple bound booklet called "Concise Guide to Press and Publishing Photographs." It's a small but essential illustrated field guide for those who collect or wish to collect sport or non-sport wirephotos, press photos, magazine photos, etc. It covers the basics and specifics of identification, dating, stamps, tags, negatives, historical background, production marks, later generation photos, etc. If you've never bought a single baseball wirephoto in your life, the guide will instruct you on how to identify that original Babe Ruth or Ty Cobb. Price is $15 shipped, which seems like a fair price when you buy your first Babe Ruth on eBay or an an antique store knowing it's an original. I'm also acutely proud that that this has to be the first ever book containing images of Babe Ruth, Fred Flinstone and Gia Carangi. If that's not worth the price of admission, I don't know what is.