1886 J. Wood Cabinets (NY Team)

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Posted By: Preece1

I didn't post this earlier because it took me a while to make the scans. I picked up this set of 14 1886 J. Wood NY Cabinets at the National. I believe this complete set is the only one of its kind. The group has 6 Hall of Famers (Ewing, Welch, Keefe, O'Rourke, Ward, and Connor) and I believe that these were the photos from which the N167 Old Judge cards took their images (On the back of the N167 cards, they mention that they took their image from the J. Wood photographs). Many have seen the Wood cabinet composite (if you have not seen one, Hal Lewis has one on his website), but those pictures have players with hats, and the few N167 cards I have seen do not. So I believe that these were the photos used. If anyone has any more information on these cabinets, please let me know.

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Posted By: ramram

I'm bumping this one back to the top just to hear what some people have to say about it.

I would have to add...I've collected quite a few cabinet cards and albumen images and I'd have to say that these sure look odd. I've not seen any foxing or other deterioration marks quite like that before. It almost looks like they were moist at one time and got a fungus of some sort on them.???

Rob M.

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Posted By: Jay Miller

Pat--I have two of the cabinets, both non-HOFers. Nice pick-up.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I'd be curious about the dimensions. I know Adam W. had a similar style J. Wood photo of a famous boxer, but it was a 'panel card' (elongated version of a cabinet card).

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

Terry Knouse had, right? They are definitely legit if so but they did have kind of a wierd look to them. Did you get the team cabinet as well? I think he had a team cabinet. That was a chunk of change..........

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Posted By: Jim Clarke

Yes, the team cabinet was apart of the group. He used to have two team cabinets. One of them had the hats on the players in the same pose and there was an address printed on the cabinet. The other one which sold with the group did not have any hats on the players and no address? I asked Terry if there was a chance that it was reprinted a long time ago... He was not sure... Most of the time the studios put there info on them. I'm not an expert like other members are on these.

JC