1910 philadelphia A's cabinet restoration

[Runscott]

I wanted to win this item, just to see if I could do a reasonable restoration on it, but I forgot to bid. Glad it went to someone who intends to do something good with it.

[esd10]

I havent recieved it yet i just won it yesterday evening so im waiting on it and when i do i will post detailed pics

[aquarius31]

Someone else on this thread knows more about this but it does in fact look like a photogravure (I don't know if this is the right term) rather than an actual photograph. If that is the case, they can certainly clean up the image at least a little bit and connect some of the the tears along with filling in some of the holes. Although you are missing entire pieces of the composite that cannot be restored you could always have someone take a very high resolution scan of the composite and do a double sided frame...one side being the original post restoration matted out properly to remove the missing players and the other side being the high resolution copy.

As a side note, I purchased the below Baltimore photograph composite several months ago. The photographs were cut out from N173's and while the entire composite could be cleaned up a bit the actual photographs would be quite a challenge. As a result, I put together my own composite and plan to have a double sided frame made up to showcase both the original and my own interpretation.

[esd10]

if in fact its anything but a cabinet photo than i would be highly disapointed because the seller says its a original cabinetephoto from 1910. i do believe its a original cabinet photo from the 1910 world champs so anything else i would be not very happy so can anyone tell me how to tell if its a real photo?