Goodwin is up

[Matt]

Well done - both of you.

[jmk59]

I think a decent rule of thumb for brown cards is this: If you have to try to decide if it's brown, it's not.

But I may be oversimplifying it!

J

[mrvster]

Jim and John,

WILD CARDS!!i have never seen a "purple" carolina, "apple " hindu.....

THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
are there anymore????

WOW!!

Regards,

Johnny

[barrysloate]

Joann may be on to something. If it's a genuine brown back it will be pretty obvious. If you have to look at the card a hundred times and you're still not sure, it's almost certainly black.

And the one in question IMO is black (sorry Scott and Hank)

[Matt]

Originally Posted by mrvster

Jim and John,

WILD CARDS!!i have never seen a "purple" carolina, "apple " hindu.....

THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
are there anymore????

WOW!!

Regards,

Johnny

Johnny - Wonka is a Photoshop guru - those are not real.

[milkit1]

This is Joe Tinker not Frank Chance ...ugh


http://www.goodwinandco.com/LotDetai...100&category=1

[docpatlv]

Sean,

I noticed that cabinet too. But I bet that the auction house submitted as Chance to SGC.

Mike

[milkit1]

I dont understand who they have working for them? This is a pretty easy one. I remember about two years ago The Tribune in Chicago put out a magazine about the Cubs showing a lot of the 1908 cubs. They had a team picture of the 08 cubs in which they only bothered to try to name half of them (and nearly every one was wrong).
In the case of this Tinker card, if someone assumes its frank chance why dont they take three seconds and look at the 1906-1910 cubs? Companies like this are making millions of dollars per auction yet know I have to double check every lot to make sure its not a completely different players then whom they say it is.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by milkit1

This is Joe Tinker not Frank Chance ...ugh


http://www.goodwinandco.com/LotDetai...100&category=1

What the hell is going on at SGC with photographs???? They shouldn't have anyone in their employ who can not tell the difference between Frank Chance and Joe Tinker. I don't care if it was submitted as Frank Chance they should know better...I hope this was slabbed prior to their issue with the JL Wilkinson postcard because they were going to be a lot more careful with photo identification.

[bmarlowe1]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

What the hell is going on at SGC with photographs???? They shouldn't have anyone in their employ who can not tell the difference between Frank Chance and Joe Tinker. I don't care if it was submitted as Frank Chance they should know better...I hope this was slabbed prior to their issue with the JL Wilkinson postcard because they were going to be a lot more careful with photo identification.

As to the auction house, from what I've seen from some of them, they just don't recognize the faces of significant early ballplayers. And - that photo is not "turn of the century" as Goodwin is hyping it - it is 1906.

This reminds me of the 1906 Library of Congress photo below which had been labeled as Joe Tinker for over 100 years. It even passed one round of SABR scrutiny before finally being corrected.