1930s George Burke Photo Cards

[MikeGarcia]

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..They were perfect for fountain pen blue ink notes and signatures. Here are some names you all know :



..The smiling Stan Hack and Fabian Kowalik are my sort of my favorites.

[the-illini]

Love the Burkes! i have been collecting these for a little while now; here are a few of my favorites...

[MikeGarcia]

..Only Feller with a bat I've ever seen. A Black Swan Burke.

Thanks for posting .

[EddieP]

Burke’s work is high quality and affordable. He also inherited all of Brace’s negatives. So if a player played before 1931 there’s a chance it was printed from one of Grace’s negatives ( Type II photo for the most part). Burke in turn loaned his negatives to Jim Rowe and his postcard’s are even more affordable.

[akleinb611]

I think you've inadvertently switched the Georges. George BURKE began photographing major leaguers as they passed through Chicago in the early Thirties. He employed a young George BRACE as an assistant. Brace became Burke's partner some time in the late Forties and took over the business in the early Fifties. It was BRACE, not BURKE, who loaned his negatives to Jim Rowe (BURKE was deceased by then), and I believe there was something of a scandal as Mr. Brace didn't get his negatives back.

[Exhibitman]

RDM Studios George Kelly



Gabby Hartnett snap



The Beast RPPC, RDM, secretarial signature (d'oh!)

[paul]

Leon,

Is your Maranville significantly smaller than the wide pen and fine pen premiums from the era? If so, I have a Ruth from the same set (in a Yankee uniform, but he is aging -- maybe 1934). It has the same white signature as yours, and even has a backstamp with the same font, though the number is 520Y. I've also seen a Gehrig. I thought Ruth and Gehrig were the only two from the set. I've never heard of any connection to Burke. What leads you to believe your Maranville was produced by Burke?

Paul

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

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..They were perfect for fountain pen blue ink notes and signatures. Here are some names you all know :



..The smiling Stan Hack and Fabian Kowalik are my sort of my favorites.

Love the Kowalik. He owned a beer distributorship and died very young as a result of over-sampling his own merchandise.

[Brian]

Jeffrey, that Moe Berg is phenomenal!