Rare Opportunity

By Richard Sintchak

As a young stamp collector when I was a boy I remember gazing in awe at the old, rare upside-down stamp that was worth a fortune.

Well, don't look now but I think we have an opportunity to pick up for relatively cheap a rare verison of an old Buffalo Bill Cody photograph at the NYT website.

Jump on it before they realize their mistake!

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Richard

Comments

[Harold McNamara]

The picture is right side up. It is the NEW YORK TIMES that is upside down.

[Marc Rochkind]

No, I turned my head, and the photo is OK. It appears that the printing is upside down.

--Marc

[clay]

This is aimed at the large format photographer market only. Don't know why they forgot to flip and reverse the letters, though.

[Bill Mitchell]

I think it was made during his famous tour of Australia.

[charlie d]

Those are inversion boots (early prototypes) he is holding his hat so it didn't fall off.

[Hugh Crawford]

So that is not a Georg Baselitz painting of a Olaf Wieghorst painting? Or maybe a John Baldasari painting after a Georg Baselitz painting of a Olaf Wieghorst painting of a cowboy dressed up as William Cody?

[Lambert]

I have a feeling the text is only shown on the website. I hope they're not so crass as to print "The New York Times" on the actual photo.

[toto]

It's not upside-down. It's what the photographer saw on the ground glass.