Ruth photo sells for $26,349.02 in lelands

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Posted By: Josh Evans

Todd
You got a goody there
That is actually the second time I have sold this exact same photo (same specimen)
It was sold a few years back and was reconsigned to this sale

If I remember correctly I originally bought it on a Boston buy trip from a fresh source This was a little old lady type source but the person was not necessary little, old, nor a lady
Just that type of fresh source that we all know and love (exciting)

This is a pretty famous image but you simply do not see it in this format
It usually has some kind of imprinted tagline regarding Ted and the Babe meeting with the date of the game
It is always like a 27th generation duped print and dates from the 1960s

This one is a different animal
This one came right from the photographer and is something of a “gallery print” although it is not of the same quality as something by Ansel Adams or Cartier-Bresson that you would have bought on Madison Avenue in the 1950s for big bucks
But remember, this was baseball and we have always been the bastard cousin from the wrong side of the tracks (until of late!)

Your print is most likely first generation and definitely vintage
Many people wonder how such an image could be first generation and have that copyright imprinted right on it
Many times that info was drawn right onto the negative (note the childish scrawl)
Otherwise, in order to add that legend you would lose a generation
You would have to make a print from the original negative, imprint the copyright or other info right on there, then take a photo of that, and then print it from the second negative
Hence, that would make it a second generation print

But those crappy 1960s prints you often see don’t ever have this “G. Lyons” cartouche (cartouche is a fancy word for the photographers name)
That and the excellent contrast is what makes this special
I have never seen this before and when I got it I got a bit of a rush