Authenticating 19th century baseball cabinet cards

[Detroit58]

SABR looks at your stuff. Picks the ones they think are not correctly identified and tell you “it’s absolutely not him.” Then you ask, “what about the other ones”(the obvious no doubters) and you get nothing but tumbleweeds. If your fortunate to get an explanation of why “it’s absolutely not him” they just may show they’re butt to the world and then decide it’s not worth looking at your stuff anymore. Don’t want to mess with the cash cow right fellas?

[robertsmithnocure]

Originally Posted by Detroit58

SABR looks at your stuff. Picks the ones they think are not correctly identified and tell you “it’s absolutely not him.” Then you ask, “what about the other ones”(the obvious no doubters) and you get nothing but tumbleweeds. If your fortunate to get an explanation of why “it’s absolutely not him” they just may show they’re butt to the world and then decide it’s not worth looking at your stuff anymore. Don’t want to mess with the cash cow right fellas?

Out of curiosity, how much does SABR charge for their opinion?

[Detroit58]

The king of the hill at SABR is tied with many. More than I will know I’m sure. When you contact certain auction houses, Cooperstown, etc. they send you to the king Kahoona. I have no idea what kind of deals he’s got with who. Seems to have some kind of racquet going.

[Detroit58]

I would like to thank the king Kahoona for teaching me the side by side process. I never seen it before I encountered him. I am a person who understands gratitude. I always thanked Kahoona even when he disagreed. He didn’t understand my point of an ears appearance changing as a head turns. I also questioned on some flaws in his side by side. He admitted to the questionable work, but claimed it didn’t make a difference. Most of his backing of his argument were based of his flaws. At the end of the day the only thing he claimed made the image “absolutely not him” was the hair. His scale and tilt on the photos were off creating discrepancies in the hairline. That was most of his argument. Also he said the top of his hair didn’t match known images. There was no known photographs of the player for about a 4 year span wear he was hatless. He said “absolutely not him” based of a way earlier photo and a later photo. I gave him very valid reasons why his hair would be the style it was. Just the hair? He sent blow ups of his ear claiming smoking gun “absolutely not him.” My ear matched one of the known better than the other known. You can measure the inner ear details with a tape measure. Exact. Ask the kahoona what I owe him.

[Detroit58]

That said card sat in limbo at one your favorite auction houses for about 5 months. I begged them usually about every 3 weeks to send it back. I don’t know if the kahoona was directly or indirectly responsible. I don’t who his ties are and how deep. We’ll move on to that card when you guys are ready. Might get interesting. How much you think I owe him?

[drcy]

Originally Posted by Detroit58

How much you think I owe him?

An apology.

[Detroit58]

The kahoona will tell you it’s impossible to find baseball player cabinets that are not uniformed. I noticed a few of you claimed that. I assure you it’s possible. I do owe king kahoona for that. Leaves me no competition finding them.

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by Detroit58

The kahoona will tell you it’s impossible to find baseball player cabinets that are not uniformed. I noticed a few of you claimed that.

A claim made by not a single person in this thread.

[Detroit58]

For the record. I apologized through his email. He never accepted. I tried to apologize through his SABR colleagues. I tried to apologize through his auction house. They wanted nothing to with it. I unfortunately don’t contact them anymore. I apologized through SABR messaging.