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Lot # 390: 1997 Kobe Bryant, "Lakers Young Superstar Battles Reggie Miller" Unique New Discovery

Category: Basketball

Starting Bid: $25.00

Bids: 22 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed
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Item was in Auction "October Collectors Auction 2021",
which ran from 9/26/2021 9:00 PM to
10/9/2021 8:00 PM



1997 Action photograph of young Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant driving to the basket and battling with Pacers star Reggie Miller. Dark room images of Bryant are extremely rare as his career was spent mostly in the era of the digital camera making ANY original photograph of him almost non-existent. This incredible original work of art was developed in a dark room in 1997-98 and was part of the collection of photographer Stephen Green who was gifted this image from a fellow photographer at the time it was taken. This is one of the only career-period 8x10 photographs of Bryant with the Lakers we have ever offered and it presents here beautifully for the first time ever fresh out of the Stephen Green collection! NOTE: PSA will not assign a "Type 1" designation to photographs on AGFA paper, because they were issued over a period of years and an accurate date range can not be pinpointed. Please keep this in mind when bidding. However, this photo comes from the collection of photographer Stephen Green who personally acquired it within the range PSA would normally give for a Type 1. It is a "vintage 1" example developed in a dark room and should be treated as such, but PSA will decline to give an opinion based solely on the paper, even though provenance secures it to be a completely vintage example.

Size: 8x10
Designation: Vintage 1
Condition: 5/5
Quality: 5/5
Overall Grade: 10/10

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