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Originally Posted by oldjudge
The upcoming HA has the twice signed Young cabinet that they indicate came from Young’s personal holdings. If that is the case can anyone explain to me why someone would autograph their own cabinet once, let alone twice? My guess is that everyone in the family knew who it was.
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Hey Jay - I forget the specifics on the original collection that the Young came from, but it included an additional half dozen or so other 1893 Pifer & Becker cabinets. I believe that all of them had the respective players’ names written on the front - supposedly in Cy’s hand. Maybe Young originally wrote his first name on the front of his cabinet at one point and then signed his full name again when he mailed the whole group to a fan? The Young cabinet also comes with the envelope that the cabinets were originally mailed in, which is also supposedly in Young’s hand.
I have never seen seen any of these cabinets in person, but I think that I saved images of them on my computer somewhere.