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jasonSean,
Although not a card, his early albumized salt print cabinet may be of interest for your records. It is one of the earliest known team shots and represents a singularly rare uniform type. The featured team is the Pop & Go BBC who possibly hailed out of Pennsylvania. It originally came from Mark Rucker’s collection and he believes that it dates from around 1859-61. I too concur with Mark’s assessment given: the transitionary nature between albumen & salt, the mount and the uniform with the 1850’s V front bib evident on the far left bottom row player). Mark didn’t have too much other background on it other than the Pennsylvania link. If anyone else has any other info on them, I would love to hear from you (it’s just a touch hard carrying out research from the UK!)
