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02-11-2013, 12:31 PM
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I know nothing about the team, but if it's a famous team and rare it would still have value even if it was from the early 1900s. If the player provenance is correct, that would raise the value.
The damage to the corner is a significant value problem, but if everything is on the up and up about the photo (including the provenance) and the photo is rare to unique, the buyer probably got a fair deal. The caveat being that I haven't seen the photo in person and haven't given here an opinion about age or authenticity, and am just musing about value. Player provenance, if it can be shown, and it it's unique or, say, one of three known examples, that would be a big thing towards the value. I have seen where old but later reproductions (by old I mean, for example, Civil War image made in 1895, rather than made in 1965) have sold for good money, but it's when the subject is famous and the overall photo is well done and looks good (display value) and usually when it was made by an 'official' or otherwise known professional photography studio. If a reproduction is old enough, it in and of itself is an antique. From my personal collecting sentiment I'm not a fan of later made photographs, but I know there are collectors who will pay good money for quality examples. Last edited by drc; 02-11-2013 at 01:15 PM. 
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02-11-2013, 12:43 PM
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1915 photos of the 1915 team on 1915 mounts wouldn't bring that much, even if in good condition, so I don't see a later image of the 1898 team, in poor condition, being worth that much. But if you are buying it for your collection, and can't find a good image of the 1898 team, then you could do worse.
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02-11-2013, 01:44 PM
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Okay, I'm going to eat crow.
I have in my possession a cabinet photo from just prior to the Spanish-American War, with almost exactly the same mount design. It's a photo of a bunch of guys clowning around in an Alabama photography studio, just before heading off to Cuba. I remember thinking when I received it, that the mount looked more like something from the 1900's, but since then I've never actually seen this mount in a positive-date 20th century cabinet. I'll post mine when I can get it scanned.
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02-11-2013, 01:50 PM
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Never dismiss the possibility that the photographer was a visionary, ahead of his time mount-wise. Or had a time machine.
Oh wait, he was from Alabama. Never mind. (I allow myself to joke about other states, as I'm from Wisconsin which itself is the butt of jokes) Mounts were generally factory made and bought not made by the photography studio, and one can look back at sport, non sport and even your family photo mounts to get an idea of the era of a mount. Last edited by drc; 02-11-2013 at 02:09 PM.
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