Was this really an 1890 Players League player cabinet?

[barrysloate]

Peter- even if he was in California and decided to have his picture taken, it's still not him. I don't see even a slight resemblance.

[HBroll]

I alerted the seller about this thread so hopefully he will respond and tell his side of the story.

[slidekellyslide]

If you guys look above I posted the lot from Huggins & Scott where these photos came from. Huggins and Scott had them listed wrong and Jonsstats is selling them as he got them...there were some correctly identified photos and then some grossly misidentified photos as well...a mixed bag. H&S certainly failed their homework test on that lot...and if they had done any homework at all they probably would have made more money for the consignor by breaking the lot up and tossing the crap photos out.

[slidekellyslide]

So I contacted the seller to let him know that the Clarkson is not Clarkson and he told me it came from a major auction house and wanted to know why I thought it wasn't him. I pointed him to this thread....Had no one else from here contacted him about these photos yet?

[19cbb]

No more fake Clarkson. Well done.

[slidekellyslide]

It would be interesting to know what, if anything Huggins and Scott will do here because some of the cabinets were legit and already sold. It probably wouldn't make me happy to know that at least half of the lot was misrepresented when I purchased it.

[barrysloate]

It really bothers me that so many of these 19th century street clothes poses end up being identified as major league ballplayers, and more often than not HOFers. If I were a beginning collector, I would stay away from all of them except the most obvious ones, such as the street clothes pose of Anson from the Old Judge set. That's a no brainer. But not every 19th century caucasian male with a thick mustache is in the baseball HOF. In fact, 99.9 % of them are not.