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Thanks. Do you agree though that all signs point to the Cabinet mounts (and therefore photos on the mounts) being produced in certain time-frames? To me, it is obvious that there will never be a type 1 or type 2 Cobb. Can you not do the same time-stamping with the type 3s and 4s? If a type 3 were to emerge with a player like Cobb, I would argue that this particular Cabinet pre-dates his Type 4 example. I don't care if it wasn't delivered to Joe Schmoe until 1912, the card was likely produced before the type 4.

I'm just trying to pinpoint some dates with FACTS.

Your argument that the Cabinets were overproduced and sometimes not sold until years later actually lends support to my assertion. But thank you for educating me on them being printed on the cabinets vs. mounted. I think that helps my case. Perhaps there were a handful of extra old type stock, but I'd guess the company would have exhausted the old type and moved onto the new stock for newer players and/or team changes.

I still find it very odd that the Davy Jones Cabinet from his time with Chicago (1904-1905) has a type 4 mount, unless 1905 is when the type 4s started being used (almost exclusively) by Sporting Life. Again, if someone can show me an example of a type 3 mount for player/team combo that was offered by Sporting Life starting in the 1906-1907 time-frame, I'd be very interested.