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REA presents Charles Conlon's circa 1910 Cobb sliding photo as, "without a doubt". the most significant baseball photo ever auctioned based on PSA's Type 1 designation of the photo. Bidding for it has already topped $200,000 with the premium. Bidders should consider the following information from experienced collectors of Conlon's photos.

The Cobb photo has white borders around it. Other advanced Conlon collectors and I have not seen or heard of Conlon's prints made from 1910 to 1912 having such borders. We believe that Conlon began printing with the borders around 1915. In our opinion, based on the borders, Conlon's stamp, and appearance of the photo and print paper, the printing occurred between the mid-1910s and the early to mid-twenties. If we saw and handled the print, we might have a more definitive time frame. The two other advanced collectors and I collectively have more than 100 years of experience with Conlons.

Dennis Goldstein