[the-illini]

Found this in an antique store in Indiana today. It is a 1902 Philadelphia Athletics "cabinet" - I have never seen the image before. Not sure if it is real or a fantasy piece. It measures about 12x10 and the image is about 9x6.

The image is not a real photo, but it also is sturdier than a magazine picture, and glossier than a newspaper cutout. The cardboard mount is very thick and appears to be pretty old. It has a Macintyre studios mark in the lower left of the image. Pretty cool images of a very young Plank and Waddell and Connie Mack as well.

Anyone have any thoughts on what this could be? My first thoughts were that it was just some homemade thing with a program cutout but it looks good under blacklight and I cannot find the image anywhere at all on the internet...