Vintage news photos are a highly popular area of collecting these days, but many collectors and sellers have difficulty knowing if that photo of Babe Ruth, Red Grange or Greta Garbo is vintage or a modern reproduction. As you'll likely expect, a later reprint will be worth a small fraction of the original. While authenticating photographs involves examining many aspects of … [Read more...]
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Photo of the Day: Top Slugger Meets Top Shooter
An iconic, artistic black-and-white photograph of Roger Maris taken during the 1962 World Series is one of 1,773 photographs that are being offered for sale during RMY Auctions’ Mega Collectors Auction. The bidding began on March 31 and will end at 8 p.m. ET on April 15. The photographs run the gamut of subjects, covering sports, politics, entertainment, military, social … [Read more...]
1907 Mathewson Photo Kicks off RMY Auction
Two young men at the top of their craft would meet for a brief moment over 109 years ago. The resulting full body photograph of New York Giants star pitcher Christy Mathewson taken by Paul Thompson is now one of the featured attractions at RMY Auctions. Never offered at public auction until now and believed to be a new discovery, the Mathewson photo is among over 1,200 … [Read more...]
Original 1927 Gehrig-Ruth Photo Highlights RMY Premier Auction
RMY Auctions has opened its August Premium Auction with over 1,500 vintage sports, entertainment and historic photographs up for bid. Batting leadoff in the auction is a rare image of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig posing for photographers as they shake hands in late September of 1927 as the “Murderer’s Row” Yankees prepared to meet the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series. The … [Read more...]
RMY Auction Opens with Mays Minor League Photo
Sporting a newly designed website, RMY Auctions kicked off its June online catalog auction Wednesday with more than 400 items up for bid including a rare, original Willie Mays minor league photo. Mays opened the 1951 season with the Minneapolis Millers but in late May, got the call to join the New York Giants. After a rough start, Mays homered off Boston Braves' star … [Read more...]
Rare, Classic Baseball Photos at Auction
Some rare and never before seen photographs of baseball stars like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle are among the 206 items offered in the final 2015 auction by vintage photo specialist Henry Yee. The classic baseball photos are originals, with some taken by well-known lensmen like George Grantham Bain. Some are transparencies and negatives. Others are … [Read more...]
Gehrig Sits: Iconic Photo at Auction
RMY Auctions has opened its May event with more than 300 vintage photographs on the block including an iconic image of Lou Gehrig, taken the day after his streak of 2,130 games played came to an end. The 8x10 Gehrig photo, taken May 2, 1939, shows Gehrig casually leaning forward during warm ups, but no doubt wondering why his athletic body seemed to suddenly be failing him. … [Read more...]
‘Photoshopping’ and Other Creative Designs in Early Baseball Photography
One often thinks of photoshopping-style image manipulations and photographic trickery as something of the modern digital age. However, nineteenth and early twentieth photographers produced many wild and imaginative manipulated images that compete with anything made on today's computers. This included collages, composite designs and artistic embellishments. This column is a … [Read more...]
Photos Through the Telephone: A History and Guide to Wirephotos
For early 1900s newspapers and magazines, there was no overnight national distribution of images. News photographs were shipped by plane, train and even boat. While this was okay for the many popular monthly magazines, most early daily newspapers had relatively few images and fewer still that were dated. While turn of the century news services could send the printed text … [Read more...]
Value of Conlon Photos Part of Complex Equation
An archive of original glass plate negatives from legendary baseball photographer Charles Conlon remains in limbo as courts sort through various claims to the large collection. Dealer John Rogers paid The Sporting News $1 million for more than 8,300 images in the Conlon Collection in 2010. He sold off a 25% ownership stakes to a private individual in the Bay Area later that … [Read more...]
