David and others - help dating a baseball related photo please!

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Posted By: <b>Jon Canfield</b><p>Today I found this photo at a local antique shop. I just thought it was kind of unique considering different guys are holding baseball bats, while others are holding very feminine looking umbrellas! Needless to say, I was hoping someone could just provide me with an approximate year? The photo mount is 8*10 (photo maybe 7x9). It is a thick mount and has embossed edges with designs. The back is imprinted Ridgway photographer. Thanks all!<img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1156616073.JPG"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1156616147.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>steve f</b><p>Terrific picture... <br /><br />1910's The girls had their session, Now the boys. The grooms' family side vs. the brides' fam side. Lose the game lose the bride?!<br /><br />The carnations on the lapel suggest a wedding. The two blokes in the center with Tuxes are the groom and his best batsman. There is also a guy with a tux shirt The tux'd fellow center, rear with the parasol and holding the bats is serving as the Ump? <br /><br />He may look familiar to the others here. I'd guess the groom was a major leaguer.<br /><br />These are a lot of fun, too bad there's rarely a definitive answer.<br /><br />There was a Jack Ridgway, Baltimore, Fed Leaguer. Played four games in 1914.<br />1889-1928 (auto accident).

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Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>I'd put it at 1910 - 1920.<br /><br /><br />Rob M.

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>It's from the early 1900s. Steve and Rob's dating of 1910s, sounds reasonable to me. <br /><br />A cabinet card or other mounted photo with an ornate embossed mount, in particular when the embossment is in the shape of a faux frame, usually is from the 1900s. Notice that in the T5 Joe Jackson thread, people were talking the photographic print fitting into the embossed frame.<br /><br />Unless there's pressing need to know the year (Sox World Series year?, Ty Cobb rookie era year?), the seller of a normal 1900s cabinet card of unknown people and team doesn't have to lose sleep if he doesn't know the year or even the exact decade. The price difference between a generic 1907 cabinet card and 1913 cabinet card is minimal at best. There won't be a T206 card inside if it's from 1909. So, when selling a generic cabinet card on eBay, saying 'early 1900s' or 'circa 1910s' is perfectly acceptable dating. If you post a nice picture in your eBay description, the potential bidders will be able to make their own judgments.<br /><br />With 1800s cabinets, it's in the seller's best interest to be a bit more exacting in dating, as, all other things equivillent, the earlier the cabinet the more valuable. But even here you will be more likely dating a cabinet to the 1870s or 1860s, rather than 1872 or 1867. And 'circa 1880s' is an acceptable dating.<br /><br />In fact, on eBay, some sellers of inexpensive non-sport cabinet cards post a picture, call the cabinet 'guaranteed original and antique' and let the viewers make an assesment of age.

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Posted By: <b>John Harrell</b><p>Based on the bat seen in the photo, I'd place the scene from around 1910. The thick handle and what appear to be flame-tempering marks on the barrel would place the bat from this period.<br /><br />John