Cap Anson(ish)

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Posted By: Joe D.

So, I found myself at a flea market...

Now I know the hobby has me - because as I was looking through a stack of old photographs, I thought one photo looked like Cap Anson. A year ago, I didn't know who Cap Anson was... now I am able to look at photographs and a face evokes a vintage player name. Similarly I am kind of amazed that I am able to name many T206s at first glance without reading the name on the bottom (more often than not).

Anyway, I purchased the photo on the off chance it might be Cap Anson.

Looks a bit like him? Maybe a long lost cousin!

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Maybe a long lost cousin or even a long lost neighbor... greater chance of the neighbor if the cabinet was done in Chicago...

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Posted By: peter ullman

funny...i do the same thing all of the time! must be the moustache...too bad most men had them back then!!

pete in mn

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Posted By: Joe D.

With that mustache style, I guess there are a lot of 'Cap Ansons' when looking through old photos.

This photo is from photographer "G.F. Morrill" in Worcester Mass... so I guess that eliminates Cap or his neighbors.

I didn't know to look for Chicago until I got home with the photo (I probably would have purchased it anyway).

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Try my N162 card of Anson for comparison. The artwork was probably done from an 1880's picture.

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Posted By: Joe D.

Ted,

I think this is the photo that triggered the memory that brought on the flea market purchase.

Here is my photo with a photo of Cap Anson next to it (pulled from capanson.com)

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Posted By: joe brennan

Not him, but a nice vintage photo.

A scared man can't gamble and a jealous man can't work.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Hi Joe- everyone goes through the phase of looking at old photos and hoping to find an Anson or a Harry Wright in the bunch. I've been looking for 25 years and still waiting for my first one. I'm 0 for about a million. It probably won't happen, but hope springs eternal.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Hope is what keeps me going sometimes... I hope to find a BIG FIND someday... ok, maybe I have a better chance of winning a $300 million lotto jackpot. Could you imagine having $10 million to spend on vintage cards? Ok, it's time for me to wake up and keep looking...

You know the old saying... "wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which fills up faster..." ok, I'm going to stop being a pessimist... hope, hope and hope...

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Posted By: Joe D.

Barry,

I am just surprised that I recognized the face. I actually thought "Cap Anson" when I saw the photo... now I know it is not him... but putting faces with vintage card names --- I think that means I officially am spending too much time on this stuff!


Fred - the big 'find' will come - keep looking. Eventually we will all realize that it is the search that is what is the most enjoyable part. The journey not the destination. Thats what its all about.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Collecting antique photos is in and of itself a hobby. It doesn't have to depict someone famous to be collectable.

Photos can be interesting when you don't know who is the person. For example, you can speculate what this person did for a living.