A Portrait of Baseball Photography - Additions/Corrections?

[Lordstan]

Lance,
The book and system have been debated ad nauseam, but I think your question is awesome.

Like Craig, I think the Type 1 category should be expanded to 5yrs as well. I also think a Type 5 category for unclassifiable should be added. It would have subcategories of original neg or copy, so Type Va and Vb. This would allow pictures that appear to be printed from the original negative, but have not other time defining marks to be placed reasonably well.

Considering the volume of photos you and Rhys handle, I'll let you two add to the knowledge base regarding the specific stamps.

[r2678]

Lance - I don't have either of the books mentioned nor have I studied news service photographs. With that said, and strictly from the photos you show, while the WWP styles my be the same or similar, they are different. Take a look at the example from page 175 and the three later photos you posted. Look at where the word NOTICE is positioned in relation to the words below it, most noticeable the N in NOTICE to "is" in the sentence below. Also look at the ending of the last word in the copy, pictures, and how it is positioned to the D in WORLD. The stamp used in the three examples you use are different than the "mid 1940-s - 1954" stamp. I don't know if this means you have discovered a new stamp, a variety of an older stamp, or...?

[thecatspajamas]

John,
Huh. What do you know. Clearly, you're right, and this is going to be a little tougher than I originally thought. I guess this is one of the slight variations like Craig was referring to that is similar to the one in the book, but just different enough to refine the date range. So I wonder if this was perhaps 1955-1959? I'll have to look for more exemplars to test...

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by r2678

Lance - I don't have either of the books mentioned nor have I studied news service photographs. With that said, and strictly from the photos you show, while the WWP styles my be the same or similar, they are different. Take a look at the example from page 175 and the three later photos you posted. Look at where the word NOTICE is positioned in relation to the words below it, most noticeable the N in NOTICE to "is" in the sentence below. Also look at the ending of the last word in the copy, pictures, and how it is positioned to the D in WORLD. The stamp used in the three examples you use are different than the "mid 1940-s - 1954" stamp. I don't know if this means you have discovered a new stamp, a variety of an older stamp, or...?

Sorry, John beat me to it. I should have read further.

[bmarlowe1]

Here's a correction. This portrait of Matty claimed to be taken in 1910 (see page 90). He is wearing a unique to 1916 Giants uni.

[thecatspajamas]

Ha! Not quite what I was expecting, but good catch Mark. Duly noted.