To be or Not to be the Wright Bros. Photo

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Must have been one helluva party.

Brian

They were partying like it was 1899.

[drcy]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

They were partying like it was 1899.

[Directly]

I'm laughing too -- at all the so called photo experts--what a disastrous error he made with my Dubuque photo-if he and some of you would have just tried to help me instead of against me the outcome could have ended up as gentlemen.---get him on here!

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by Directly

I'm laughing too -- at all the so called photo experts--what a disastrous error he made with my Dubuque photo-if he and some of you would have just tried to help me instead of against me the outcome could have ended up as gentlemen.---get him on here!

What happened with the Dubuque photo? I read the thread, but didn't see any finality of outcome or determination on that photo.

As far as this thread goes, I don't see a resemblance between the subjects in the photos. But they're also not particularly clear images either.

[2dueces]

Hard to find good humor today. Everyone is afraid of being canceled. This thread added a bit of humor to a very nice September morning.

[Directly]

Mr Snowman- the photo was discovered in St Louis around 1991. to start Charles Comiskey Played baseball in Dubuque Iowa between 1878-1881--then going on the St Louis to play for the Browns in 1882---Years ago I had a few pleasant conversations with a very professional TV show baseball expert who studied the photo and confirmed my hunch and offered me some money to sell. I was also asked by a collector to bring the photo to Chicago. Years later I posted the photo on Ebay and somehow it came up on Net54. That's when I was thrown under the bus and dragged threw the mud by a few Net54 experts--this dragged on until recently a professional photographer found and pointed out the photo was dated--(81) I found a SABR article/Bio of Joe Quinn. Bingo! Joe Quinn was asked to join Comiskeys team in 1881--this connected the dots--Comiskey was Joe's mentor in 1881 per the article----Quinn had a business and is lay to rest in St Louis--I believe this photo once belonged to Joe Quinn and became lost after his sons passed.

( In 1881 Quinn would be 19 and Comiskey 22 )--if you go thru the link, I was told to hurry up and sell --looking back on this statement I think he was worried he made a error and indeed he had !

I was planning to take the original photo to the national Chicago but the Covid-19 concerned me so I cancelled.--

[drcy]

None of your photos show any famous baseball players. 99% of high school and tintype photos don't show anyone famous. The team photo appears to show a high school team and is not of the correct era to depict Comiskey and Quinn at those ages.

The tintype actually is a really nice baseball tintype, and stands on its own as a nice tintype without there being a famous player.

[robertsmithnocure]

I thought that you had already identified most of the players? So, now Gleason is Quinn?

[Directly]

Originally Posted by drcy

None of your photos show any famous baseball players. 99% of high school and tintype photos don't show anyone famous. The team photo appears to show a high school team and is not of the correct era to depict Comiskey and Quinn at those ages.

The tintype actually is a really nice baseball tintype, and stands on its own as a nice tintype without there being a famous player.

Your definitely NO expert, I wouldn't listen anything anything you have say--get your expert on here--not you --you really don't know what your talking about!!