FS: 1924 Walter Johnson and Teammates Original photo REDUCED 6/27

[Dardevl]

It appears that it may be part of this set...

https://rmyauctions.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=49004

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by Dardevl

It appears that it may be part of this set...

https://rmyauctions.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=49004

Wow, so they're like cards in a set, except photos. I think you're right. That is very cool. I know picture packs and other photo premiums do this. But for a news service to? I think that's unheard of. Especially so early. Explains the superb quality.

[prewarsports]

I have always thought this was as much a baseball card set as anything else in the hobby. They are just as much "cards" as the Frederick Photos for example. If more had been known about the issue in the 1980's to 1990's when the Standard Catalog was being produced and was liberal about what was being put into the book, they would be highly collected rare "baseball cards" today.

I believe they were only distributed to players and executives as well as a few newspapers etc., which would point to maybe 100 sets being made at the time with perhaps 10-20 or so known examples of each player existing today. Just a theory but I have been sort of studying the photos/cards for about ten years.

They are rare and undervalued in my opinion, GLWS

Rhys

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

I have always thought this was as much a baseball card set as anything else in the hobby. They are just as much "cards" as the Frederick Photos for example. If more had been known about the issue in the 1980's to 1990's when the Standard Catalog was being produced and was liberal about what was being put into the book, they would be highly collected rare "baseball cards" today.

I believe they were only distributed to players and executives as well as a few newspapers etc., which would point to maybe 100 sets being made at the time with perhaps 10-20 or so known examples of each player existing today. Just a theory but I have been sort of studying the photos/cards for about ten years.

They are rare and undervalued in my opinion, GLWS

Rhys

Tyvm for the expertise Rhys! Very interesting to learn something new about the hobby. Especially when it bridges multiple areas.

[OriolesHOF]

I am hoping Al from LOTG will chime in as it was last sold publicly a few years ago from one of his auctions.

"Charming 1924 snapshot featuring six members of the 1924 Washington Senators posing with their young children. Depicted from left to right are pitcher George Mogridge Walter Johnson first baseman Joe Judge pitcher John Martina shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh and catcher Pinky Hargrave. Some age-relating soiling are the only critical condition issues with a piece like that aside from some mild wear and slight corner creasing however it is not the condition of the piece that makes this so highly desirable - it's the fact that it comes from Johnson's personal snapshots featuring the children of the great pitcher and his teammates (the boys outfitted in miniature Senators uniforms) and the handwritten notations on the reverse written by Hazel Johnson (Walter's wife)."-LOTG Fall 2016