Show your tintypes.
 

This is my one and only. I've never been able to ID this guy or his (RF) team. Early long bat.

You may be the only tintype collector on the forum. I only have two. The team one features an early catcher's mitt and the catcher has two early gloves. The other one is probably 1865-70 - picked it up because of the crystal clear image and the girl is hot.

Also, I think my bat is longer than yours, and the cute girl has her hand on the knob :)

This is the closest I have to a tintype, a daguerreotype of a boy with a ball.

no tin types but here is one of those early long bats 39", 1860s and the kid that owned it R C Reed.

Wow those are all fantastic images and look at the size of that bat! Here are some of the ones I own...not sure that these are all baseball.

Great images guys... I have one..

http://luckeycards.com/pphototintype.jpg

These are awesome! Love the bats and mask, Leon!

I'm not sure those letters are RF. It's quite possibly KC for Kansas City or Knights of Columbus, but this may pre-date Knights of Columbus teams since the fraternal org was only founded in 1882 and didn't really grow huge (spread across the country) until 1905. I'm thinking the tail to the C which you think is an F might just be connecting fabric or a thread out of place.

George- Love the six player pose. It is almost perfectly symetrical.

John,
I always went with RF since the letters on his bib seem to support the same.

19th Century Base Ball Tin Types
 

Sorry for the poor (small) image quality, but here is a sampling of tin types from our 19th Century Base Ball Collection...Of most note is the studio posed, double paned, action shot of the two players with ball and bat.

Jonathan
www.dugouttreasures.com

Here is mine.

Fantastic pics - great thread idea.

Only three, but all related. And pretty funny.

First one a ballplayer
http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=16815

Second one the player and I think his wife?

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=16816

Then a group shot. With at least one person who seems VERY unamused with the whole baseball thing.

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=16817

It's possible they're all actors from some play or something that involved baseball. Perhaps a vaudeville type comedy? Or........Maybe they're a bit drunk and the woman right of center in the last one isn't about to let them forget it any time soon.

Steve B

Steve, I love the relationship of those first two photos. The props and the player are positioned exactly alike in both photos, but the photographer actually moved both a few feet to make room for the woman, with great attention to having them look exactly alike in both photos.

I never noticed that. It is pretty neat. I always get distracted by the expressions. I haven't seen too many tintypes of any kind with anything more than the rather blank "I can't move and mess up the photo" expression. That probably makes these later than they seem.

Steve B

I guess this topic isn't limited to baseball....so here is some football players. The earliest known football photo and the only football tintype I have ever run across (c. late 1860's to 1870's).

Attachment 170467

hand on the knob
 

Couldn't wait to write that comment, I bet. Nice tintype and appreciate the "caption"

It never crossed my mind until I posted the pic here - you all bring out my dark side.

that third photo is there another person under that coat or what

I love these...have always wanted to start a tintype/daguerrotype collection...but where to begin?

Here is one I own. No equipment visible, but it believe these are baseball players.


http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/f...ck/Tintype.jpg

To match Gary's daguerreotype of a boy with a ball, here is an ambrotype of a girl holding a ball:

<a href="http://s69.photobucket.com/user/rman444/media/prewar/Baseball%20Photos/Ambrotypes/IMG_0007-Copy5_zpse32c50cf.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/rman444/prewar/Baseball%20Photos/Ambrotypes/IMG_0007-Copy5_zpse32c50cf.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_0007-Copy5_zpse32c50cf.jpg"/></a>

And a few of my favorite tintypes:

<a href="http://s69.photobucket.com/user/rman444/media/prewar/Baseball%20Photos/Tintypes/bbmultitintype7.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/rman444/prewar/Baseball%20Photos/Tintypes/bbmultitintype7.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo bbmultitintype7.jpg"/></a>

<a href="http://s69.photobucket.com/user/rman444/media/prewar/Baseball%20Photos/Tintypes/DSC_0170-Copy_zpse6e33e29.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/rman444/prewar/Baseball%20Photos/Tintypes/DSC_0170-Copy_zpse6e33e29.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo DSC_0170-Copy_zpse6e33e29.jpg"/></a>

<a href="http://s69.photobucket.com/user/rman444/media/prewar/Baseball%20Photos/Tintypes/IMG_0005_zpsa770f7ca.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/rman444/prewar/Baseball%20Photos/Tintypes/IMG_0005_zpsa770f7ca.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_0005_zpsa770f7ca.jpg"/></a>

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