Unc-Exhibit Ruth

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Posted By: leon

A fellow board member asked for a scan of this so I figured I would post it in an off chance someone has seen another or knows more about it. I got it from Lew off of ebay a few years ago. It's standard Exhibit size, on heavy cardboard, blank backed, and says "@ U&U N.Y." at the bottom. I presume that is for the prolific photography studio of Underwood and Underwood.....regards (I think I posted this a long time ago too)

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Posted By: Todd Schultz

Very nice card. According to Marc Okkonen's book on uniforms, the Yankees did not start wearing solid blue stirrups until 1922, so it seems your card must date from then or later. U&U provided the photos used to make those crude w515 strip cards in 1923, so maybe they provided the photos themselves for other cards around that time.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

For seasoned baseball photo collectors, the Underwood stamp is desirable. As the company went out of business fifty years ago, the stamp proves a Ruth or Ty Cobb photo old. They also made commercially sold stereoviews, so they were busy folk.

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Mike Wheat has something similar for sale:



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31719&item=5156196932&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V>

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Posted By: dan mckee

I have 3 different numbered cards all with the same pose, these didn't start appearing til recently (last 7 years). Are you sure this one is period? Dan.

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Posted By: dan mckee