Old Vintage Antique Baseball Cabinet Photo Kansas City Blues Team 1898 Champions

[Runscott]

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.

[drc]

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.