Knickerbocker Photo (Update)

[RCMcKenzie]

Here's an anonymous cabinet that looks like it was dated 'Nov. 19 of 89' or maybe '1890'? and a Beaneaters Cabinet of General Stafford that would date to 1898-99.

I was hoping to match the Anon photo that I bought to an Allen and Ginter type subject, but never found anything on it.

I would guess late 80's early 90's on your cabinet.

[SteveS]

Snowman, here's a pic of the back of the Wright photo. An interesting thing is that it measures 2 1/2" x 4 1/8", so it has a cabinet design in a CDV size. I haven't had anybody date it, and no one else has even seen it other than this board. I had no intention of posting it, but I thought it would be neat when Michael mentioned his collecting interests above. It's not black, but a dark brown. Also, it looks like the very outer edges are gold. I had originally thought 1880s, so that's in the range of what others are saying.

RCMcKenzie, cool pix! The front of that Chickering is very similar to mine, but I don't know the size of yours.

[SteveS]

Also, here's the results of the facial-match program. I was able to use Betaface on this one as there are quite a few examples of Wright photos. It comes out blurry here, but it shows a match as the same person ranging from 81%-90%, and that includes pictures of Wright at various ages.

[RCMcKenzie]

The black mount Chickering that I have is about the size of an n173. Here's a cabinet from a different studio from 1888 with a somewhat similar mount. As for the Wright id, I don't know. I agree it sort of looks like him, and Chickering Studio was in Boston, but I am not very good at facial recognition. My experience with trying to id old photos is that a lot of people look alike.

[SteveS]

RCMcKenzie, along those lines and just for fun, I ran your Chickering cabinet through a reverse image search. This is one of the possibilities that popped up. Everyone needs to note that in no way am I saying this is Cap Anson. I'm not going down that rabbit hole, and I have no idea if he had any connection to Boston. But there are noticeable similarities. Again, not at all saying it's him and it came up not through my IDing it but through the reverse search. Just a fun thing to throw out there.

[68Hawk]

Chinese bots have taken over this site, right???

[SteveS]

No. Russian.