Picked this up at a show. Another item for the pre war collection.

I totally agree, Mike! Lots and lots of great vintage photos out there for $10-$30 but some of the marquee players have exploded ... usually when the photo is perceived to be one that hasn't been seen before.

I usually bow out of the expensive ones and wait for another to show up. Several times I've been able to snag one at a fraction of what it went for in an earlier auction. Very volatile market on these.

jeff

GREAT ... more football photo competition :p

Seriously, RMY is definitely an auction you need to check out if you're looking for vintage photos. BUT get up to speed on how to date photos as there are lots and lots of photos of photos, new photos taken from original negatives, etc. that aren't anywhere nears a valuable as the originals but are hard to distinguish. It's easy to get burned buying photos if you don't know what you're doing ... or even if you do!

jeff

I love seeing these old photos. I don't have any in my collection. If I dipped my toes in these waters, I would be one of those collectors getting burned, so no competition from me:)
From what I understand, many of these sports photos are coming from old school newspaper archives. The originals are scanned for the newspapers storage and possible use, and the originals are sold. I even heard of companies that offered to scan all the newspaper archives just to get ahold of these original photos?
Larry

I have to confess, sometimes I'm just happy to copy some to my PC esp. if the watermark isn't too distracting :) They're great to look at - esp. the guys we don't see many items for.

Larry, great question! Jeff, I recall an article once about Type I, Type II, etc. that gets into what Larry is asking - we should have a thread sometime so we can discuss more....

There is a lot of good information on this site http://www.cycleback.com/photoguide/

1938 Dixie Lid Sammy Baugh
 

My latest Baugh pickup. Now if I can only find a "Bread for Health" Baugh then I will be complete :)
http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=19607

Nice Baugh lid!

I finished off my 1954 Bowman set with an eBay purchase, this beautiful George Blanda RC!
I also finished off my 1953 Bowman set and am awaiting the cards. I'll post when they get here:)
Larry
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...ton/Scan_5.jpg
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...Scan%201_5.jpg

OK, now I will admit I am not well versed in the pre-war era. But, I have never seen a "Dixie Lid" before. Those have got to be really tough, right? Doesn't look like something that would have a large population survive.