Photomatching Help

[Reddrgn88]

I bought a stick off Ebay from a guy in philly who had a Richards Rookie game used stick, it shows a ton of wear and was from the Gene Hart foundation auction. It was auto'd on the blade by Richie and is from the first half of his rookie year. I can tell by the colour of stick and type as he went through about 4 different colour combo's in his rookie season and he used this colour combo at the very start of his rookie year. I can't seem to photomatch it on Getty. Is there anywhere else I could go??? here is the link to the auction and some pictures of it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280706140935&ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT

As you can see there are some serious marks along the bottom half and a big gouge above the "R" on the bauer name...can't find this sucker on any of the early rookie getty images with those marks or I find the images aren't clear enough to make a positive I'd....

 

[wingnut888]

I would ask Vegaspuck for one. He has quite a few Richards game used and if he has anything from his rookie year he might have an idea. Also someone suggested to me a site called Checkoutmycards.com You can check out older cards to try and match it up that way. They have a zoom on the cards pictured and you can get a pretty good close up. Just check out 06-07 stuff since his rookie cards don't really have game action on them. Another nice site to photomatch is daylife.com Not sure how far back the pics go though. Good luck.

 

[bonnev659]

ask VP and there is other Richards collectors that can maybe point you to the right direction

 

[Reddrgn88]

I am the next largest Richards collector to VP on here and have tried to match it to any of my cards but to no avail. I will try the avenues listed above.

Thanks for the input guys.

 

[wingnut888]

Oh, one more thing you might be able to do is find a Flyers yearbook or media guide for 06-07. They might have some color pics in there that would match it up.