Never mind not the St. Louis team I thought it was...

[packs]

I saw that piece too. Do you think it's an original photograph? I thought it looked more like a piece of paper fixed to a mount, as though it came from a guide.

[barrysloate]

None of the faces jump out at me, and I'm not sure these are St. Louis Browns players.

[pencil1974]

What other St. Louis team would it be? It looks a lot like the Browns uniforms from the 1888 composite photos but you never know. Any suggestions would be welcome.

I don't know yet if its legit, I'm supposed to get it today or tomorrow but was writing up the SGC submission on a bunch of cards I'm sending in and was going to include if it was legit. If not back to the seller it goes.

[ramram]

It is possibly a the St. Louis newspaper team. Many of the big city's newspapers had teams and their photos show up now and then. Can be very deceiving.

Rob M.

[prewarsports]

I saw it as well and my first thought was that it was not an authentic item but please let us know when you get it.

[pencil1974]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

I saw it as well and my first thought was that it was not an authentic item but please let us know when you get it.

I will do that. I asked a respected member and expert in this area to take a look and he had the same issues as we did but mentioned that it was a reputable dealer so he thought it may actually be OK. But did say it looked to be late 1890's with the embossed cabinet style. It will be pretty clear once I can get a loop to it and do a black light test on it as well.

As for the Newspaper team I didn't know that but did look on the net after it was mentioned to see if there was any notes talking about a St. Louis Newspaper baseball team. Nothing on that but some other interesting fact about St. Louis did come up. At least its a learning experience.

[JeremyW]

I saw that photo on Ebay & the seller said the photo was marked St. Louis, Michigan. I didn't realize that there was such a place, but I would guess that he/she was correct.

[pencil1974]

Originally Posted by JeremyW

I saw that photo on Ebay & the seller said the photo was marked St. Louis, Michigan. I didn't realize that there was such a place, but I would guess that he/she was correct.

I saw that as well but its on the cabinet part, what is strange to me though is that the photographer Sperry is out of Washington and St. Louis Michigan is a such a small place with no baseball history what so ever. I looked up their archives and then don't mention anything on baseball but they were happy to get electric in the early 1900's.

[pencil1974]

On a side note this would be a lot easier if people would have kept a better history of things with photos so thinking ahead 130 years people like us could figure things out much easier on the internet. Selfish is what I call it.