New FB Acquisitions

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

Thanks again for showing these - with so few cards for 20s and 30s NFL, the photography is really nice to see. RMY wasn't on my radar at all.

GREAT ... more football photo competition

Seriously, RMY is definitely an auction you need to check out if you're looking for vintage photos. BUT get up to speed on how to date photos as there are lots and lots of photos of photos, new photos taken from original negatives, etc. that aren't anywhere nears a valuable as the originals but are hard to distinguish. It's easy to get burned buying photos if you don't know what you're doing ... or even if you do!

jeff

[LuckyLarry]

Originally Posted by jefferyepayne

It's easy to get burned buying photos if you don't know what you're doing ... or even if you do!
jeff

I love seeing these old photos. I don't have any in my collection. If I dipped my toes in these waters, I would be one of those collectors getting burned, so no competition from me
From what I understand, many of these sports photos are coming from old school newspaper archives. The originals are scanned for the newspapers storage and possible use, and the originals are sold. I even heard of companies that offered to scan all the newspaper archives just to get ahold of these original photos?
Larry

[TanksAndSpartans]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

I love seeing these old photos. I don't have any in my collection. If I dipped my toes in these waters, I would be one of those collectors getting burned, so no competition from me
From what I understand, many of these sports photos are coming from old school newspaper archives. The originals are scanned for the newspapers storage and possible use, and the originals are sold. I even heard of companies that offered to scan all the newspaper archives just to get ahold of these original photos?
Larry

I have to confess, sometimes I'm just happy to copy some to my PC esp. if the watermark isn't too distracting They're great to look at - esp. the guys we don't see many items for.

Larry, great question! Jeff, I recall an article once about Type I, Type II, etc. that gets into what Larry is asking - we should have a thread sometime so we can discuss more....

[revmoran]

There is a lot of good information on this site http://www.cycleback.com/photoguide/

[jthorst75]

My latest Baugh pickup. Now if I can only find a "Bread for Health" Baugh then I will be complete

[DBesse27]

Nice Baugh lid!

[Kurri17]

Originally Posted by jthorst75

My latest Baugh pickup. Now if I can only find a "Bread for Health" Baugh then I will be complete

OK, now I will admit I am not well versed in the pre-war era. But, I have never seen a "Dixie Lid" before. Those have got to be really tough, right? Doesn't look like something that would have a large population survive.

[jthorst75]

Originally Posted by Kurri17

OK, now I will admit I am not well versed in the pre-war era. But, I have never seen a "Dixie Lid" before. Those have got to be really tough, right? Doesn't look like something that would have a large population survive.

I was thinking the same thing when I was looking for Sammy Baugh cards and I came across this one. I figured who would have held onto one of these back in the day considering it's not really a "regular" card. So like anyone else would do, I checked the pop reports. There are 14 thru PSA and 2 thru SGC like mine which are both SGC 60 (5). The next toughie is Baugh's 1950 Bread for Health which was distributed in loaves of bread. Now that one should be tougher IMHO but I have found plenty of those except for the Baugh on eBay. In short there are quite a few Dixie Lids on eBay in various years, even a Nagurski, so take a gander.