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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Won a beautiful 2nd generation close-up of Joe Jackson's face--no thanks to Lelands! THEY said the "C" in his cap meant he was with Chicago, and that because George Brace's stamp, (including the 2-number Chicago zip code) was on the back, it was a "Brace photo." George Brace, who recently died in his 80s, was a bit young for phptography in 1913 when it seems to me the photo was taken, but as we all know, he and his partner (a much older man) George Burke, tried to get photos of everyone who played in Chicago, and they also collected and printed the photos of others.

Anyway, I still paid a mountain for it, and I'm not sorry. Even if he was with Cleveland, and I'll never know who took the picture!

I've heard horror stories about Lelands, mostly having to do with shill bidding, and other bidding crimes, but since the two things I won for him were verry popular, doubt that a shill was used.