Folk Art Renditions of Baseball Players/ Who Are They?

[perezfan]

Pretty good likeness of Reilly... particularly with regard to the uniform color, tall/thin stature, style of mustache, posture and positioning of the feet (splayed out, as opposed to parallel). But then again, the other player has the same mustache, body type and foot positioning .... ugh!

Definitely involves some speculation, and we may never have a conclusive answer. But the subject image certainly "could have" been modeled after Reilly (see pics below...)

[doug.goodman]

Here are comparisons of the 6 figures from both sets.

[TaxMechanick]

Doug, thanks for showing this comparison.

I do see differences in images... i.e. position of head and mustache in 1st image, positioning in back of catcher in 5th image, other perhaps so slightly in angle and positioning of legs, etc.

My noted observations in my prior post remain as written. I still believe all are likely folk art renditions of specific intended players, and, likely one set was rendition done from other set. Also, as I noted the 2 I have are different from either so referred to set, so were likely original to original expanded set, perhaps a total of 10 figures. The differences in the actual pins and perhaps sizes and variations in the images, at least to me, suggest they were not produced sets, rather are more likely folk art.

Then again, as Mark said in his last post, we may never know...

Best,
Glenn

[doug.goodman]

My opinion is that they are all obviously different, but also obviously based on the same original images. And those original images are out there somewhere...

Unless, one of them IS the original.

[buchner]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Here are comparisons of the 6 figures from both sets.

These were copied from the WG1 set.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by buchner

These were copied from the WG1 set.

I'm too lazy to exercise...

I'm too lazy to google so I can compare the two sets, too.

But I'm enjoying that last sentence very much.

Doug

[Butch7999]

A most astute observation, buchner -- brilliant, even, and we're ashamed we didn't recognize it ourselves.
Best matches we can make from 1888's Base Ball Playing Cards (anyone's welcome, of course,
to suggest better matches from that set):

[Butch7999]

Oh, and full marks to Old Cardboard [ http://www.oldcardboard.com/wg/wg1/w...?cardsetID=946 ]
for being the source of most of those card images (no need to Google with Old Cardboard right there)...

[doug.goodman]

With thanks due to both Buchner and Butch7999, now the question remaining is, are there cards in that set that match the artwork the OP originally asked about?

Doug "still lazy, after all these years" Goodman