All of the photographs (hockey and others) were produced in black
& white and were unnumbered. There was a printed autograph overlaying the
Group 1 and 2 photos. Group 3 photos had a nameplate inscribed with the player name.
Some player photos had slight variations in them. For example … the
name might be spelled two ways (Alan/Allan) for the same photo pose, or it could be
printed in a different location or style.
In addition, a players
stock of photos could become depleted through its demand. If this
happened another new photo would be taken of the player. Sometimes the original
photo negative would be re-used to create a new photo. This would
occasionally create a slightly
different variation of the player photo (dark background, reversed negative).
These variations can be
divided into five categories: Photograph, Uniform, Name, Stick and
Autograph variations.
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Photograph Variations
dark background (DB)
light background (LB)
white background (W)
action pose (AC)
on ice pose (I)
in net pose (NT)
near boards pose (BO)
dressing room pose (DR)
portrait pose (PO)
full-length pose (F)
dated on back (DT)
blank on back (BL)
white borders around photo (WB)
one white border around photo (OW)
horizontal photo (HO)
vertical photo (V)
larger image (LG)
smaller image (SM)
reversed negative (NR)
Bee Hive promotion (PR)
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Uniform Variations
"A" on sweater (A)
"C" on sweater (C)
home/dark sweater (H)
away/light sweater (AW)
no number on sleeve (NN)
sweater number (#)
wearing helmet (HE)
no helmet (NH)
Name Variations
black script (BS)
white script (WS)
name under skate (NU)
name away from stick or skate (AS)
name near stick or skate (NE)
name overlaps stick or skate (NO)
name over both skates (BT)
name over right skate (R)
name printed diagonal (ND)
name printed parallel (NP)
name high (HG)
name low (L)
name error (E)
name spelled (SP)
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Stick Variations
stick blade visible (VB)
stick blade not visible (NB)
stick blade cropped (CB)
Autograph
Variations
Group 1
facsimile autograph
block (lower case)
block (upper case)
script
script (newer)
Group 2
facsimile 1944-45
script thin (early)
script thick (later)
Group 3
script within nameplate
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