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Old 10-07-2008, 05:04 PM
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Old 10-07-2008, 05:12 PM
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Dead as a doornail. Looking pretty ripe too.

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Old 10-07-2008, 05:12 PM
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I saw that one on ebay and thought to myself "WTF?".

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Old 10-07-2008, 05:19 PM
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dead pull hitter.

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Old 10-07-2008, 05:25 PM
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from the dead ball era

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Old 10-07-2008, 05:38 PM
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Why do you think they are doing it as a tribute. It looks like he is wearing a uniform so maybe he died in WW1?

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Old 10-07-2008, 05:48 PM
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Is there a dead guy in the center back and a mannequin in the center middle?

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Old 10-07-2008, 05:53 PM
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ok, just wanted to make sure i wasnt going crazy. that is a corpse in a box with the team then

i was the under-bidder unfortunately so i won't be able to get a better scan

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Old 10-07-2008, 05:54 PM
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He's just a utility man but he's dying to play.

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Old 10-07-2008, 05:59 PM
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See the "B" on the shirts. That's Bernie.

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Old 10-07-2008, 06:02 PM
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Posted By: davidcycleback

I've not seen a sports version, but in the old days they often made memorial cabinet photos of the recently dead. Typically they had a composite living image of the deceased surrounded by flowers or such. So memorializing the deceased through photos was common practice.

Most of the memorial cabinets are tasteful and aesthetic. This one might scare young children. What should have been done is have the deceased in an oval in front of or off to the side, rather than 'standing' there in the crowd like an apparition.

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Old 10-07-2008, 06:19 PM
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I think the printer of the photo superimposed the player in the back from a separate negative. I'm assuming he missed the photo shoot that day. Basically you exposed the blank photo paper with the full team shot, then drop the other negative in, crop it down to show what is desired, then expose the paper again. Print and voila, a "full" team shot.

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Old 10-07-2008, 06:28 PM
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I think I see Ty Cobb in the back of the photo..... oh wait, that wasn't the question.

That is one of the whackiest cabinets I have ever seen...

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Old 10-07-2008, 06:50 PM
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Below are examples of memorial cabinets

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Does nobody else find the Chuckie doll disturbing? I'm OK with the dead guy, but the dude in the middle is troubling...

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Geno - I'm with you; the doll is creepy.

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On second look at this photo what I think the photographer did was insert a shot of a guy in a baseball uniform standing against a wooden fence (bleachers or outfield wall probably). The guy probably was not present when they took the photo or he joined the team later... The doll is probably a ventriloquist doll that served as a mascot.

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whole picture seems a little "stiff" to me.

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That may be the most disturbing thing I have seen in a long time. Buddy looks a little withered. How was this EVER considered appropriate?

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How much did this cabinet end up going for?

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$28

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Old 10-08-2008, 12:20 AM
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I think the guy to the left of the doll is Daniel Day Lewis... in another lifetime, I guess

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I do not think anyone in the photo above is an actual dead person. Some time back I acquired the photo below and it struck me as extremely odd. I wondered if perhaps the woman on the left was dead? I have contacted many many people who are experts on this kinda of thing, and the consensus was that perhaps she was blind or had a mental illness. While that is quite rare in itself, I was told many times by the photo guys and gals that they had never seen of a "posed" dead person standing up(as if still alive). A few had seen some photos of someone "posed" sitting down and wearing regular clothes, but that is extremely rare!






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Plus! Here is a picture of the boy in the middle of the baseball team 7 years later... Ha!



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is clearly on the ball here. I used to collect the occasional unusual image - and have seen 3/4 with similar anomalies as a result of missing people. That being said, I think the dummy is priceless.........

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Do I really have to state the obvious here? It's an overprint. It's a "ghost" image that was transposed on to that picture from another picture, geez.....

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Uh....Fred...maybe you should read the thread. More than one person has pointed that out.

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Old 10-09-2008, 07:23 PM
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I think Fred may have been goofing around.

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Fred was definitely goofing. But his insinuation could easily lead to an entire thread about overprints/underprints and cockfighting.

I don't think any of us want to go there.

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If you look real close at the guy on the far left of the second row, just over his right shoulder, you'll see Susan B. Anthony...weird.

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Dan, I was just "funnin" around... That picture should be on that website called TheDeadBallEra.com

It's definitely pretty freaky...

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DOH! You see what happens when I start discussing politics? The battery in my sarcasm meter dies.

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Photobucket[IMG][/IMG] Actually I think that person center left IS Susan B . Anthony .

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I wish I had video footage of Susan B. Anthony's audition for Cirque du Soleil. She looks so stiff that you could prop her on top of two stacks of books and iron a shirt.

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