Jay Publishing Photos

[AustinMike]

Mike, like others I collect the photo sets of a particular team. In my case it's the Yankees. As others have said, the same photo may be used for several years with slight differences in the crop of the photo. To illustrate this, I've attached several Jay's photos of Mantle from 1957 to 1960 with one unknown year. The first photo came from their 1957 Portfolio pack with 25 photos and is the same as found in the 1958 team 12-pack. The next photo came from the 1958 World Series 12-pack with just the Yankees and is also in the World Series 24-pack with the Braves. The third photo came from a 1959 team 12-pack. The fourth photo came from the 1960 team 12-pack (and is also in the 1960 All-Star pack). The last photo is of an unknown year. It came in a set listed on eBay as 1957, but the set had 16 photos. Looking at the colorization on the back, I figure 6 photos are from one year and the other 10 are from another. I'm not sure what years. It's very close to the 1958 World Series photo, so it may be around then.

[mrmopar]

I was going to try to come up with something for 70s/80s Dodger packs, the stadium issue kind that are similar to jays, but I don't think they actually are. I must have 30 packs, but can't confirm that any are original as issued other than the 1 set I actually bought at Dodger Stadium in 1980. I did find a bunch of variations, but never got around to trying to pinpoint year of issue. I suspect several were used across different years though, making it that much more difficult.

Here are the scans I did:

http://s9.photobucket.com/user/mrmop...?sort=9&page=1