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Originally Posted by AustinMike
Nice pick-ups Ben. I have the same photo on the right, but mine has a little more border. Makes me think they were issued by different entities or at different times. Now I have to look for one like yours.  |
Mike, the one i have was owned by Bill Wilen. He emailed me and said the photo came with an autographed letter back from Mantle in 1958 when he wrote to Mantle asking for an autographed photo. It is clearly just a print on the photo but still cool. He said he has the letter framed in his den
As to the size difference... i have no idea what that is about. The photo image is 7 -1/2" x 9- 1/2" which looks to be the same or similar to yours, so it could have been handout smaller i guess? Also, yours looks much cleaner, almost white, compared to the beige stock example i have.