Vintage Baseball Card Original Photos

[Matt]

I had always thought that the "open mouth" variations on the T205s were done first and then, perhaps due to people not wanting to look down ball player's throats, they were later updated to close the mouth. However, that seems to be incorrect from these photos. Since all of these contemporary photos were used as the basis for T205s, we now can assume the initial version of the cards were the closed mouth versions and later the mouths were opened (or, less likely, perhaps 2 poss of those players were issued initially?).