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Originally Posted by Runscott
Ken. No one thought you were or did. I was clarifying what seemed to be a a confusing post I made that was possibly misunderstood.
Most T206's were created with photographs as their base image. Some artistic license existed - compare Matty black cap to white cap.
This isn't speculation - you can actually verify this for card images where their photographic sources are known. For others, such as 'Donlin seated', it's obvious even if you don't have the photograph in front of you.
To me, the idea that Burns' glove was free-handed backwards is ludicrous, but before you take offense, that last statement is in response to John's post, not yours. So if anyone's going to get hurt by my comments, it would be John. John doesn't get mad - he gets even. Very dangerous person. Don't piss him off. If you do, he'll make sure that you NEVER ever get a Corcoran baseball card, even if some weird circumstance arose where you wanted one.
JK
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I think you're giving the t206 artists too much credit, you have no idea if they were baseball fans. Not everyone looks at that pic and sees a glove on the wrong hand. Ever see the statue of Babe Ruth outside Camden Yards? I'm pretty sure that was a much bigger deal than 1 of 520 drawings in the t206 set.
The T3 pic of him is probably the real photo, why would they correct it? They weren't as playful?
I know where you live Scott, I have no problem knocking down your lawn elf and stealing your newspaper
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