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Originally Posted by barrysloate

Warren issued these baseball images for several years. I think we once determined that the Warren cabinets were issued between 1872 and 1874, but I forget what the analysis was. They did come with different background styles, suggesting at minimum different photo shoots.

Barry, perhaps I should have been more clear. I was referring only to those CDVs with the "pencil names" on bottom w/ the Warren Studio credit on the rear of the CDV. I have no doubt that the analysis done on the other Warren Studio CDV's and cabinets w/ the credit on the front bottom left is sound w/r/t the dating.

Scott, looks like some of the links to the CDV's point to the wrong player at times. It's a cool concept though.

edited to add: I looked back at the thread and saw that Kevin referred to an 1873 Boston Team Cabinet Photo by Richardson (sold by Mastro in 2007). It does appear that the O'Rourke image is the same as the one on my CDV, suggesting that the image was taken in 1873 (O'Rourke's first year on the club). It's interesting that McVey was not on the club that year but the background and style of his CDV are similar to those of O'Rourke, Wright, McVey, and Barnes. Do we know when McVey left for Baltimore (or returned to Boston)? Perhaps these were taken in the offseason?