Knickerbocker Photo (Update)

[drcy]

With the Anson and the Nicholas Cage photos (and the Ty Cobb in the other thread), I think people are catching on that it takes more than a resemblance to prove a photograph identification authentic. If you look through someone's yearbooks, you'll likely find someone who resembles someone famous.

I've never dismissed that there are resemblances, or that the Chickering as a photographer is significant.

This all also demonstrates why the examination of the photograph itself and its age is essential. Doesn't matter how much someone looks like Babe Ruth. A 30 year old Babe Ruth couldn't appear on a 1890 cabinet card.

In cases of some photos of famous people, the photos are known to have come from the estate. In fact, there are Cap Anson photos out there that came from his family, I believe his granddaughter.

And with many antique photos there are mysteries and always will be mysteries. Most tintypes, and most baseball tintypes, are of unknown people, their identities lost in time.