1950's card photo/portrait sharing

rose14com

I was looking at Monte Irvin cards today, don't ask, I'm easily distracted. I noticed the 1954 Dan Dee pose looks identical to the 1954 Red Man (both are on ebay), but the portraits were painted/colored differently. Ever notice that before?

I wonder how many other brands might have employed this in the past, sharing possibly the photo of the subject or even having the same illustrator creating nearly identical portraits for cards?

Griffins

Been happening for almost 100 years!

rose14com

I think it's pretty interesting. Those are some nice looking cards Griffin. I'm a baseball nut myself. I'd love to figure out if there were any players that had the same pose on 3-4 different brands for a year or group of years. I keep thinking of the Red Heart set from the early 50's, and well, I don't know too many off the top of my head, but it would be pretty cool to have an example of the same pose from as many brands used it.

I know there was a thread about this related to Topps, but I guess I hadn't noticed it much with the other brands.

Stone193

Jennings:

T206:



T3:



The T3 is mine - the T206 frome ebay.

mike

cravetopps

this was an extremely common practice for vintage T-cards, pre-WWI.

Stone193

55T and 56T Killer:




IMO, same portrait with different "lighting" - Topps did that a lot - very lazy if ya ask me.

mike