Legendary Live auction LOT#6 & t206

[steve B]

Just a guess, but I think it's a pasteup for a Spalding page that wasn't used. The 1909 guide has a few similar composites that use images shared with T206. None have the team name or any photographer info in the picture.

Maybe some other publication used them too?


Trying this link, the 1909 guide is available as a free e-book from google.

http://books.google.com/books?id=E6g...201909&f=false

Steve B

[drcy]

Supporting Steve's idea, I think there's a fair chance it was the original art used to make something else. What the something else might be I don't know-- could be cabinet cards, postcards, a publication picture, banquet program. If the photo includes original hand drawn design and text, that would support the original art theory. And original art composites were often oversized.

[drcy]

If you want my guess, it's an original Joseph Hall composite design used to make cabinet cards or some other items. Though most of his baseball photos date to the 1800s, he was still working in 1908. Joseph Hall is as big a name as Horner.

[murcerfan]

I tried to read the ridiculously small white text on the funky brown background.....gave up.... threw catalog in the garbage.