The Game That Was - The George Brace Baseball Photo Collection

[thecatspajamas]

Telling Burke from Rowe is easy: just look for Burke's stamp on the back. Telling a George Brace PC from a Jim Rowe PC can be a little trickier, as both primarily used the same RPPC stock with the Kodak pre-printed divided back. Often Rowe's prints will look light or faded and generally don't have the sharp contrast that Brace's restrikes do, but many are virtually indistinguishable until you've seen enough of them to recognize Brace's handwriting on the back vs. Rowe's. Generally-speaking though, whether the postcard was produced by Brace (after Burke's death) or Rowe doesn't have much effect on the value or desirability (speaking of Brace vs. Rowe), as both were producing restrikes from Burke's original negatives. Unlike Rowe, Brace did continue to take his own photos, so for shots from the 1950's or later, Brace's would be more desirable as Rowe does not appear to have been a photographer himself and was limited by what source material he could find (he REALLY lucked out getting his hands on so many of Burke's original negatives to work from).

Burke vs. Brace or Burke vs. Rowe is altogether different though, and signed original Burke photos (with Burke's stamp on the back) are much more expensive and tough to come by, especially if you're limiting your focus to HOFers.

[gregr2]

Great information, thank you!!

So I may limited myself unnecessarily going with Burke HOFers. I think I will still try to find as many Burke signed HOFers as possible but I'll have to be open to Brace/Rowe HOFers as well.