19th Century Bats Info?
 

Hi there, my father is interested in learning about 19th century baseball bats, and possibly beginning a collection. He recently picked up one (later era?) bat at LotG:
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Are there any books? Or decent blogs? I'd imagine a large part of identifying old bats is just matching shape/style, but then there's gotta be a good database (pulled from newspaper ads?) of marked bats w/ company names, etc.