Cabinet photo...real or fake??

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Posted By: CLAUDE

Picked this up on ebay on an impulse buy..ran across it with 2 min. left and thre a bid at it and won. It was under $15. I don't know anything about these so any help/advise would be appreciated. If it's fake, it was a cheap lesson anyway.

Thanks-
Claude

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Posted By: Jerry

I think it's a period cabinet OK, Probally a Skuller
Smarter Minds than mine will know, I'm sure

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Posted By: 1880nonsports

but interesting it's the BS athletic club

no guarantees whether written or implied.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Real, but not baseball.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

The vast majority of forged cabinet cards, tintypes and ambrotypes are of high end subjects-- ala Cap Anson, Geronimo and George Custer. Forgery is of much lesser concern when buying inexpensive subjects. It's safe to say that nearly all to all tintype and ambrotype forgeries are of high end subjects.

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Posted By: 1880nonsports

the subject/effort/reward are indeed essential elements to motivate someone to make a fraudulent copy of a photograph - however in regard to your last admonition relative to ambros/dags - mounted photos are a MUCH different medium. Copying dags and ambros is no casually undertaken task and as you mentioned would be reserved for BIG bucks items. Tintypes a bit easier to copy but the cost would still be prohibitive and difficult to make a product that passes "inspection". Different for paper "stuff". In the mid-1990's with the advent of more powerful super copiers as well as an increasingly active FeeBay marketplace - I ran across quite a few "fake" cabinet photos (primarily indian subjects) at the paper shows I used to frequent. These fakes were typically constructed of copy images placed on legitimate mounts. I have also come across images that have been mounted and/or remounted quite innocently - perhaps an unmounted image from a scrapbook - in the collectibles arena sometimes as an aesthtic choice someone made - so motivation can be seen in different ways to different ends. I certainly defer to your greater knowledge of the subject - just trying to point out that logic and reason are mearly guides in the world of collectibles. Thanks for the holiday card btw - happy new year to you!
sorry for some lack of clarity - I just got in so it mights-a-been a long night

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Posted By: davidcycleback

The guy looks as if he could be an athlete of some sort-- ala track, cross country or rowing. $15 for an atheletic cabinet card seems like a fair to bargain price.

As the photo was shot in Providence RI, home of Brown University, a question is whether the 'B' in the insignia stands for the Ivy League school. An Ivy League athlete would be in higher demand.

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Posted By: Fred C

Hey, is that William Nevin?

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Posted By: joe brennan

Real and a bargain at $15. I think you did quite well.

In Rememberance of James W. Brennan Sr. 1924-1982. Dad, thanks for everything you did for me.