Cabinet card checklist?

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Posted By: joe

Does such a thing exist? For example, are there any compilations of Jos. Hall cards, or Matthew Brady cabinets? In trying to collect all Buffalo/Rochester cards I thought I had a pretty good list, but I checked out JC Clarke's Web site — what a collection — and saw about 7 cabinets I'd never come across before. Does the hobby kind of find out about what actually exists when it turns up? It's a little discourging to try and collect these cabinets if there's potentially an infinite amount of them. Should I just give up on this goal?

Joe

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: joe

short answer: yes. I guess I was asking if there was any way to track what photos exist. For example, these guys had to keep records of who paid for what pics. Maybe there are bills, or ledgers that someone owns that may list what teams sat for photos? Just a question. Maybe a dumb one, but thought I'd ask anyway.

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Posted By: Bryan Long

that it would be next to impossible to establish a checklist for such a "set." I may be wrong but I would think that your best bet would be to consider your "set" complate until you find yet another one that you don't own. That's what I do with my e95 set sorry bad joke. BTW, I think Hal said it best by saying there is no such thing as a stupid question.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Non-commercial baseball cabinets weren't issued like baseball cards, so it's difficult at best to establish a set. Due to the rarity, it likely would be near impossible to finish a set if it existed. If you decided you were going to complete the Carl Horner Cabinet Card set of T206 poses-- irrelevant to the cost, you would be purchasing a cabinet card about once or twice per year. The best bet is buy baseball cabinets that you like as they come up for sale or auction. If I were going for Horner set, I still wouldn't pass up on a nice Brady if it came up. You might end up having an assortment of styles and photographers and players instead of the set you were hoping for-- but that's fine.


Having said that, there is nothing at all wrong with someone researching and documenting the known Major League cabinet cards, photoraphers, etc, so that collectors have a handle on what's out there.

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Posted By: Julie

BASEBALL photographs? Where can I find one?

David ?

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Posted By: davidcycleback

There's a Brady CDV of Harry Wright and his dad (Sam, I think). Don't know of others.

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Posted By: Julie

(call me Yoda)--baseball or otherwise? Any old corpse from the Civil War would do...

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Non-sport Brady photos, usually CDVs, can be found with some regularity and are often not expensive-- Civil War generals, etc. I've seen them on eBay.

His photos are easily identifiable, due to his stamp on back... If you see a CDV with "Brady's National Photographic Portrait Gallery", NYC or Washington DC address, that's Brady ... During the time period, some other photographers bought his negatives and used them to make their own photos. These vintage CDVs are easily identifiable by the text on back-- ala "Jones Studio Portrait made from Matthew Brady Negative."

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Posted By: Scott Forrest

...but it would take a lot of work. A few of us discussed this at one point and considered taking the following approach: design a standard format spreadsheet for collecting data, then each person take a stack of auction catalogs and start transferring data to the spreadsheet.

It would take a while, but I think it would be a reasonable goal to at least build a database containing detail about cabinets and cdv's sold in auctions over the last ten or so years - you could also include scanned images from the catalogs for future comparisons (items sold multiple times would contain info for each auction they appeared in).

I don't have the time to head such a project, but would certainly be willing to help with "data collection" design and going through old catalogs.