SCARCE AND LIKELY UNIQUE "SHOELESS" JOE JACKSON REAL PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARD C.1909 (JOE JACKSON PROVENANCE)(SGC AUTHENTIC)
SCARCE AND LIKELY UNIQUE "SHOELESS" JOE JACKSON REAL PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARD C.1909 (JOE JACKSON PROVENANCE)(SGC AUTHENTIC)

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SCARCE AND LIKELY UNIQUE "SHOELESS" JOE JACKSON REAL PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARD C.1909 (JOE JACKSON PROVENANCE)(SGC AUTHENTIC)
Provenance
Joe Jackson Collection.

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Elizabeth Seigel
Elizabeth Seigel Vice President, Specialist, Head of Private and Iconic Collections

Lot Essay

Sepia tone and color tinted real photographic postcard picturing "Shoeless" Joe Jackson standing with his wife Katie in posed setting. Jackson is seen wearing his Savannah Indians uniform from the South Atlantic League. The image was one of two taken during the session in downtown Savannah the other showing two other players with their wives in addition to Joe and Katie. The image was later published in the March 1916 issue of Baseball Magazine. Front of the postcard remains fairly clean with few creases and tiny corner ship at top right. The postcard back is postally cancelled and has some remaining black paper residue from adhesion within the Jackson family scrapbook which it originated. One of a scant few original images from Joe Jackson's personal collection which along with several other pieces within this auction are being offered for the first time publicly. We are not aware of another known example of this incredible rarity which very likely is a unique surviving example. Encapsulated by SGC (Authentic) and includes letter of provenance: GD

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