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2022 SPRING PREMIER AUCTION

Wed, May 18, 2022 08:00PM EDT - Sun, Jun 5, 2022 08:36AM EDT
Lot 841

1929 WALTER JOHNSON WASHINGTON SENATORS ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH - PSA/DNA TYPE I

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$639.60
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Featured here is an original Type I photograph of the great Walter Johnson taken in 1929 his first season managing his beloved Washington Senators. The Big Train played his entire 21-year career in the nation’s capital retiring in 1927 as the most dominant pitcher in MLB history. 

Pictured with an intense stare Johnson sports a Senators cap and team jacket in one of the best portraits we’ve ever seen of him. The back has a short caption and is stamped April 16 1929 by NEA. There’s a left corner crease and a couple minor surface wrinkles in this otherwise immaculate well-centered and perfectly-focused portrait of a baseball legend. 

DATE/YEAR/ERA: 1929

GENERATION: First (original negative)

ISSUER/NEWS STAMP: Newspaper Enterprise Association

CAPTIONED: Yes

DIMS: 6.5” x 8.5”

Encapsulated by PSA/DNA Type I

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