DRC, agreed. This is an anonymous cabinet no doubt, and sometimes photographers would do this (more often than not) because having their name embossed was expensive too. There are more blank mounts like this out there than ones that are embossed with a photographers name. My philosophy is that if you were say Charles Conlon and developed photos for use in publication etc., why would you choose to mount a photo to board and undertake a needless expense when a stamp would do, and also make sending the photos through the mail to the buyer cheaper? Also, the type of photographic process used by the news service photographer in the 1910's was not the type that needed a stiff back to prevent damage like the photography styles of the previous decades.
This is a true cabinet and not something that looks like it was done by a news service after the fact, but at the time by an anonymous photographer or the player himself. The dark mount and edge wear absolutely point to a vintage 1910's cabinet backing and not something that a news service would have used afterwards.
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