Anyone else collect original photos that were used to make cards?

[Matt]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

A few from my collection...

Nice - thanks for sharing!
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[slidekellyslide]

I don't collect them, but I did make this discovery about 2-3 years ago. Found the postcard on an ebay live auction and I think I may have been the only person at the time who realized what it was.

[thekingofclout]

Thanks for the kind words Eric and Jeremy. It's tough to track these down but very rewarding once you do land one. Here are just a few more. Hope you enjoy them. My best regards, Jimmy

1953 Mantle: http://tinyurl.com/mffz6m

1936 DiMaggio http://tinyurl.com/njdlh5

1954,1955,1956 TOPPS - Ted Williams http://tinyurl.com/nbrwgl

[tedzan]

TED Z

[bmarlowe1]

Nice find Dan - that's a much better photo of short time major leaguer Roy Ellam than I can find or have seem listed.

[drc]

I owned a large collection original photos used to make 1930s-50s Exhibit Supply boxing and wrestling photos. These were the actual photos with all the crop marks and Exhibit notes, etc and came from the Exhibit Supply's owner/president. This included the all the photos for complete card sets in the original folders, including art for cards that were planned but never made. The photos for unfinished cards are listed as 'ghost cards' in the set checklists. The keys were the Clay and the 1930s photo for the wresting exhibit card of Bronco Nagurski, where only one card is known to exist. When I had the Nagurski photo, the card was not known to exist and was added as a ghost card to the set's checklist. One finished Nagurski card was later discovered. My collection added several cards to the Exhibit checklists and pointed out some cards as short prints and solved some set mysteries. For example, the back of one card for one had a dated note note that it was to be removed early from printing and replaced by another. All the photos were 8x10 and originated from different sources, including private studios, Ring Magazine and news services. Several of the photos had the original proof test sheets pasted to the back, which listed how many and what kind of proofs were made. Also, all the names on front, whether faux signatures or printed, were added over the top of the photo. Most of the photos had some sort of aesthetic enhancement, including painted in back grounds. In the Nagurski below, everything is painted over in silver, grey or white ink, except Nagurski. In the Ezzard Charles below, notice how his trunks and part of his glove are painted in. You can see the horizontal line where the photo edge ended and they kept on painting. The Charles is part photo and part painting.



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[Kawika]

Very interesting thread. Clemente's vertical leap in the photo is astonishing. And Dan B., what a cool and serendipitous find! I don't collect original photos much at all but I did score this Benjamin Falk cabinet of Christy Mathewson which was shot around 1905 and which is the progenitor of numerous subsequent Matty cards such as the W600, M116 and 1915 CJ, all which changed out that natty suit for a baseball uniform. Falk, by the way, was the same photographer who shot Joe D.'s terrific Astoria Giants postcard.

[Knuckles]

What a great collecting niche and well done with what you've been able to obtain so far. The original photos are much nicer images of the players, it makes me want to photoshop card remakes using the photos.

- Garret