Tobacco collector's........piedmont advertising piece

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by kjjavic

Maybe I am wrong here, but does anyone else agree that the single panel piece on ebay seems to have a lot more detail in the fans facial features, than the larger panel does? Could the ebay panel perhaps be a piece of original artwork for the 3 paneled piece? Or maybe it is just the photo of the three paneled piece is lower resolution, and you just can't see the details.

I think its possibly the illusion of a clear shot since its cropped w/ the frame.
Plus the smaller panel cropped by the frame is way larger & more clear then
the scan of the entire piece which was scanned from the Smithsonian book page.

[Hal Kaplan]

No illusion ... the ebay panel is from a different piece ... the gentleman seated to the right of the lady fan with the red hat near the lower right corner is different and wearing a different hat.

[Al C.risafulli]

I hope someone here got it - I set what I thought was a pretty decent snipe and didn't come close.

I thought it was a beautiful piece.

-Al

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Originally Posted by Hal Kaplan

No illusion ... the ebay panel is from a different piece ... the gentleman seated to the right of the lady fan with the red hat near the lower right corner is different and wearing a different hat.

I agree. Also, the image is stretched wider in the crop than the original.