Weird cabinet card

[Runscott]

I forgot to bid on this before it ended yesterday - has got to be the weirdest baseball-related cabinet card I've ever seen:

[SikSyko]

It is weird but I like it for some reason.

"It's all for you Damien" The Omen (1976)

[ethicsprof]

I'm glad that you forgot to bid on this scary thing.
Weirdest, I've ever seen---in baseball.

best,
barry

[khkco4bls]

Luv it. Strange but great doll.

[1880nonsports]

although mounted photo might be more appropriate. I'd guess 1908 or perhaps a skosh earlier? I'm no expert. I really like it. I used to buy doll photos and circus or black themed photos to sell on feeBay in the mid 1990's to feed my own habit of women base ball players cabinets. I figured as long as I was going to photo and ephemera shows AND ebay was just being born..... After 3/4 years doll collector's interest in them leveled off like much of what was old and new after they were exposed to the medium - the market matured and corrected with the internet. Circus oddities and african americanna seems to have remained as it was. I kept a few examples of each genre.
That being said I might have developed a strange attraction to unusal doll photos as a result of my travails A weird shot like yours will always hold it's value - I've never encountered one with a base ball uniform and the overall spookyness draws the viwer in. I'd keep it - but if not - you can shoot me a number......

didn't see you slept the auction. Sorry about that....

[seattlerainiers]

Here's a postcard (AZO arrows up back) of the same early AL "Chucky" doll:

[perezfan]

It's circa 1914-15.

The first 3 links show the Federal League version.

The 4th link describes the American League version as pictured above (thankfully, no picture). There was also a National League variation...

http://www.lelands.com/Auction/Aucti...mposition-Doll

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/.../2007/886.html

http://legendaryauctions.com/LotDeta...entoryid=92047

http://legendaryauctions.com/LotDeta...ventoryid=1210