pete hill, 1910 punch cigar cards

Over at Cubanball.com they have posted a new version of the Pete Hill card from the 1910 Punch Cigarros set, commemorating the fall 1910 American Series.  The old version I had posted here was damaged and actually didn’t look quite like Hill; here you can see more clearly that it is, in fact, him:

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UPDATE 11:20 pm Here is an even clearer (though smaller) image, from an auction at Hake’s – where it sold for nearly $65,000 last fall.

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