Postcard necesito informacion

[nolemmings]

Yes I know. The Gonzales card, if authentic, is from the Sears 1946 set.

To my knowledge, Mendelsohn neither made postcards nor authorized others to use his images from m101-6; however, a few other card sets in the '20's "borrowed" some of his images. In any event and as you know from their careers, the Gonzalez and Marsans photos would have been from circa 1917 when first used. Gonzalez also appears in the m101-6 set with the Giants--thus from 1919 or 1920 (same photo, different caption). Good luck tracking down the info.

[Roland 49]

Todd, you tell me that Gonzalez, Sears's is authentic, so the others, are they forgeries?

[nolemmings]

No Roland, that is not what I am saying. I do not collect the Sears set, nor many postcards of any kind, so I am not in a position to say if any are authentic or not. I do not know if they were reprinted, and if so, with proper permission or not.

I can say with some confidence the two cards you show that use Mendelsohn's photos were not issued in the 1917-20 time frame that m101-6 was distributed. Some of his images were used in sets from the 1920's, but from what I have seen, those were in recognized card sets. Whether someone chose to use the photos to create postcards, rightly or wrongly, I do not know. It is known in the hobby that many reprints using old photos were created in the 1970s and surrounding decades.

[cardinalcollector]

I've never seen any reprints of the Cardinals and Browns Sears issue. They are very difficult to find.

[Roland 49]

Todd, I understand it very well, here in the Cuban collections of cards and postcards, copies were also made, with the same images, so I show it in my catalogs, once they showed me a Lemke catalog and I saw that it had cards, postcards, pins. etc. I thought that perhaps what I showed could be cataloged, now you will see an example that I have in my catalog Volume 2, one is from the collection of cigars "Trinidad y Hno" and the other from "Chocolate La Imperial" and they show the same photo, one It is a postcard and Trinidad's is 8x10 inches, I have several more of this, thanks for the information.