New FB Acquisitions

[TanksAndSpartans]

Jeff, great pick ups! Did you go after any of the Grange items particularly the one with him, Friedman, and Molenda?

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

Jeff, great pick ups! Did you go after any of the Grange items particularly the one with him, Friedman, and Molenda?

Went after the big three photos that were in the auction but came up short. The one with Grange, Friedman, and Molenda was one of them.

jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

Thanks again for showing these - with so few cards for 20s and 30s NFL, the photography is really nice to see. RMY wasn't on my radar at all.

[revmoran]

Jeff the photos are great but I'm baffled by the prices on these - well, not those but the prices in the photo market - they're all over the place - they seemed to be dropping with the release of so many press photos from newspaper archives, but now I think they are on the up-swing, especially for the marquee players. I'm having a hard time adjusting when there are still photos like these for $20 and $10

[Laxcat]

Picked this up at a show. Another item for the pre war collection.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by revmoran

Jeff the photos are great but I'm baffled by the prices on these - well, not those but the prices in the photo market - they're all over the place - they seemed to be dropping with the release of so many press photos from newspaper archives, but now I think they are on the up-swing, especially for the marquee players. I'm having a hard time adjusting when there are still photos like these for $20 and $10

I totally agree, Mike! Lots and lots of great vintage photos out there for $10-$30 but some of the marquee players have exploded ... usually when the photo is perceived to be one that hasn't been seen before.

I usually bow out of the expensive ones and wait for another to show up. Several times I've been able to snag one at a fraction of what it went for in an earlier auction. Very volatile market on these.

jeff

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

Thanks again for showing these - with so few cards for 20s and 30s NFL, the photography is really nice to see. RMY wasn't on my radar at all.

GREAT ... more football photo competition

Seriously, RMY is definitely an auction you need to check out if you're looking for vintage photos. BUT get up to speed on how to date photos as there are lots and lots of photos of photos, new photos taken from original negatives, etc. that aren't anywhere nears a valuable as the originals but are hard to distinguish. It's easy to get burned buying photos if you don't know what you're doing ... or even if you do!

jeff

[LuckyLarry]

Originally Posted by jefferyepayne

It's easy to get burned buying photos if you don't know what you're doing ... or even if you do!
jeff

I love seeing these old photos. I don't have any in my collection. If I dipped my toes in these waters, I would be one of those collectors getting burned, so no competition from me
From what I understand, many of these sports photos are coming from old school newspaper archives. The originals are scanned for the newspapers storage and possible use, and the originals are sold. I even heard of companies that offered to scan all the newspaper archives just to get ahold of these original photos?
Larry

[TanksAndSpartans]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

I love seeing these old photos. I don't have any in my collection. If I dipped my toes in these waters, I would be one of those collectors getting burned, so no competition from me
From what I understand, many of these sports photos are coming from old school newspaper archives. The originals are scanned for the newspapers storage and possible use, and the originals are sold. I even heard of companies that offered to scan all the newspaper archives just to get ahold of these original photos?
Larry

I have to confess, sometimes I'm just happy to copy some to my PC esp. if the watermark isn't too distracting They're great to look at - esp. the guys we don't see many items for.

Larry, great question! Jeff, I recall an article once about Type I, Type II, etc. that gets into what Larry is asking - we should have a thread sometime so we can discuss more....

[revmoran]

There is a lot of good information on this site http://www.cycleback.com/photoguide/