Fatima and Pinkerton cards are the only real photo baseball cards from the early 1900's - both used very thin (typical) silver gel photos that were typical for the period, and I'm fairly sure both used images from the same group of photographers (Van Oeyen,etc). Those are the reasons they look so similar, but I don't think there was any affiliation between the two. Fatima were produced by Liggett & Myers. Pinkerton were produced by Pinkerton Tobacco.
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