Show your Christy Mathewson Photos

[TCardFan]

Originally Posted by Kawika

I've shown this photo probably too many times already but it's a Matty photo thread and this is a Matty photo so what the heck. I originally was led to believe that the image was dated 1905 but subsequently saw that it was used in the 1903 NYG Sorting Life composite so Matty would have been 23 years old. Photographer was Benjamin Falk, a prominent NYC photographer in those days, the bulk of whose subjects were theatrical people.

Looks like this Falk cabinet card was stolen from the Hall of Fame.

http://haulsofshame.com/blog/?p=1639

If you check the cabinet card back, that's how Kawika "originally was led to believe that the image was dated 1905..."



The back of this Mathewson photo reveals the Hall of Fame's "PD" designation for "Public Domain." In addition, the museum's accession numbers have been either covered or removed. This card sold for over $12,000 in a 2008 MastroNet auction.

Is the FBI reading?