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Need Help Identifying This King Kelly Cabinet
**Not For Sale**
Does anyone here happen to know anything about this card? Appears to be an image of King Kelly attached to a Wright Studio Mount. I've never come across anything like it so figured I'd ask here. Any help is appreciated -Brian |
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Wow! I have never seen that in 30 years of collecting. Very cool item you have there Brian
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Love Ty Cobb rare items and baseball currency from the 19th Century. |
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Wow
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*I agree. That cabinet is cool. I always like this kind of pose of Kelly...
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I don't want to burst any bubbles, but it looks like a photo (possibly albumen?) of an already existing hanging framed photo, which was then trimmed and pasted to a photo studio mount.
Couldn't say exactly when it was made, but I'd guess late 1910's to early 1920's. Still pretty cool, but I sense it's a really old (hopefully), fantasy piece. |
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A fantasy piece was my first thought as well. It just looks...off.
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Last edited by BillyCoxDodgers3B; 05-24-2024 at 04:39 PM. Reason: double post |
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But, since I'm replying, I would ask what others better versed than me think about a couple of things: --Does the photo not look sloppily pasted atop a cabinet backing? --Does the cabinet backing itself look super fresh to anyone else's eye? (This could obviously be easily forgiven, as so many of these rested in albums for over a century, barely touched.) --It's been my observation that much more pride and care was taken in everything back then to have allowed for such a sloppy cut job on the photo. Those wavy, hand cut edges just wouldn't fly in period quality control, would they?! I would love to see this thing examined under a VSC. I wonder if the choice of a black cabinet backing was done on purpose in an effort to help obscure anything that may be/may have originally been on the cabinet behind the photo. Again, I loathe opining on anything unless I'm more knowledgeable in the subject matter, so please take my words as observational in nature only. Last edited by BillyCoxDodgers3B; 05-24-2024 at 04:49 PM. |
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