D&M Ad Peice I Once Owned

[perezfan]

I saw that too...

Christies did not do the consignor much of a favor by omitting Gehrig from the title/description. Wish I'd seen the piece pre-closing.

Perhaps someone here was lucky enough to land it?

[Shoeless Moe]

Not 875, more like 1200 once everything gets tacked on, but yep good buy

Partial blame could go to the consignor for not telling Chrisities, of course could be the widow of a dead guy selling his collection so she wouldn't know.

[MrSeven]

Can you actually claim it's Lou Gerhig? Despite the obvious appearance, does anyone think this a legal thing for not including his name on the display? Maybe D&M didn't actually have rights to use Gerhig's image.

[Topnotchsy]

I found it somewhat astonishing how important details like this were left out of auctions. Someone mentioned that there were photos that were used as the image for cards and that was not mentioned. They also ignored mentioning previous sale prices and often had the auction estimate at a fraction of the amount. (I bought a lot of 3 contracts for $625 that had an estimate of $600-$800. One of the 3 sold for $1500 at Hunt Auctions 4 years ago).

I understand that Christie's has not generally run sports auctions, but this was really hard for me to understand...

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by MrSeven

Can you actually claim it's Lou Gerhig? Despite the obvious appearance, does anyone think this a legal thing for not including his name on the display? Maybe D&M didn't actually have rights to use Gerhig's image.

+1

The pose is Gehrig-like, the image certainly not, IMO.
A stretch to refer to that as Gehrig.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

+1

The pose is Gehrig-like, the image certainly not, IMO.
A stretch to refer to that as Gehrig.

Not really... (*with note to 20-20 hindsight, but it still looked like him to me)

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[perezfan]

Isn't that also the '33 Goudey pose? I thought it was one of Gehrig's best-known images.

That said... I agree that D&M probably didn't have the contractual agreement necessary to put Gehrig's name on it. But the image is immediately recognizable.