1894 Baltimore Orioles wire photo

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Posted By: dan mckee

I won this supposedly vintage photo:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=204&item=5101153129&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

What are your thoughts? It seems like a cheap copy in my hand yet seller stated vintage. Also the address to send money to is Sports Cards Plus! Little Rock, AR, NOT the well known vintage dealer from California.!

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

This does not look to me like a wire photo...note the border. At best, it might be a page out of a Spaulding Guide or even a copy of one...Just my opinion..

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Posted By: Elliot

I'm sure it's vintage, just not from 1894 and not a wire photo. If you read the seller's copy closely he doesn't claim either of these two things for the photo.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

And overexposure (too much brightness) is typical of reprints. Don't know either the "auction seller" as listed, or who else you could mean--he certainly isn't Sports Cards Plus, in any case, who, I should think, would have no need to rip people off calling something "vintage" when it was a copy. A "1894 WIRE photo"? I supppose it's just barely possible, but i didn't think 19th century newspapers or magazines were into photography at ALL.

David Rudd? Which is what I should have said to begin with...

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Posted By: ramram

These photos are not original to the 1890's but are later copies used by the wire services. Probably mid 1900's but not modern either. That is why he can get away with calling them vintage. Hankron will chime in on this shortly, I'm sure, and be able to give more insight.

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: dan mckee

I will be very shocked if the one I am holding is older than 10 years. I am with Julie.

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Posted By: hankron

I don't need to tell anyone here that photo isn't from 1894. I did, however, check out a few of the sellers' other photos for sale, and they appeared to be legitimate-- with the proper/vintage stamp and paper tag on backs.

Considering the voluminous amount of wirephotos the guy is selling, it would be a reasonable guess that this Orioles photo is a modern reprint used by a wire service, newspaper, sportswriter, book publisher or similar.