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Hal LewisI was wrong on the Gold Coin Clarkson:
John: No, it couldn't go the other way. The larger photo of Comiskey had to exist before the cropped version. I know you are saying that maybe the larger "photo" existed but just sat around for a year or two before Old Judge used it to produce a baseball card... but that isn't how the Old Judge cards were made. Old Judge didn't start taking their own photos until 1887, because their 1886 set was a hand-drawn set that was copied straight from a set of 1886 cabinet photos taken of the 1886 NY Giants by J. Wood Company.