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Posted By: barrysloate

The two player ambro sold in my Feb 2003 auction for $4592. Maybe I can scan a copy of it on this site, but it was a bit light. I'll give it a try today.
The Atwater team (assuming that really is the name of it, nobody really knows) is a full plate tintype. And the date it was assigned is 1859, certainly a fair estimate but we don't know for sure. The ambro I sold looked every bit as ancient, and since ambros preceded tins, I always felt it had the edge re: which came first. I owned them both at one time; that tintype is one of those things I always regretted parting with.
One interesting aspect of the ambro- when you looked at one of the players under a loupe, he was wearing hoop earrings on each ear. Never could come up with a good explanation for that. I never saw an early ballplayer who wore earrings.