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Posted By: Cycleback

Likely, these were prepared by a local photography studio and were not mass-produced commercial issues. If you look at a 1900s cabinet card where the photographic image is circular or oval, the image is often handcut-- so there's nothing peculiar by an uneven cut here. The Rose Co.'s baseball themed postcard would have been a stock background used by the studio.

In the early 1900s, the real photo postcard slowly replaced the cabinet card as the display photo of choice, so it should not be unexpected that a local studio would prepare a team real photo postcard or individual player real photo postcards, just as they could a set of cabinet cards.

I beleive that these are legitimate real photo postcards, but should be considered distinct from the Rose Co. Postcards depicting Cy Young, Chisty Mathewson et al-- which where more than likely commercially issued items.