Baseball Team Tintype Photo

LincolnVT · #1 01-05-2019, 05:56 PM

Cool image. Guessing late 1800s if not early 1900s. Price range at auction $180 -- $200...here on the BST board maybe $150. Wish I could be sure it's a baseball team...bats look a bit thin and long. Polo?

WahooSam · #2 01-05-2019, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by LincolnVT

Cool image. Guessing late 1800s if not early 1900s. Price range at auction $180 -- $200...here on the BST board maybe $150. Wish I could be sure it's a baseball team...bats look a bit thin and long. Polo?

I think you can be sure it�s baseball with the player positions on the bib fronts. I also think you can likely date it to pre-1894, which is when bib- or shield-fronts disappear from the Spalding catalog.

ramram · #3 01-05-2019, 09:12 PM

I had seen that recently offered but backed off. It appears to be c. 1880 but the aging looked odd to me. I�ve seen lots of tintypes but they don�t typically age like this one. It�s possible that it looks that way because it�s later in the era of tintypes when the process may have changed slightly. Do you have a photo of the back that you can share?

Rob M

baseballfan14 · #4 01-05-2019, 10:31 PM

Thanks guys! Appreciate the feedback. The front does have a lot of wear on it and the back is purely black. I am having a hard time getting images with my camera to be small enough to list here. Everything is too big and I am not technologically skilled enough to make the images smaller. I had to use someone else's camera to load it on here. It does seem right around the 1877 to 1890 range to me from the research that I did online. Actives and Active were the names of some of the first teams in baseball in the 1864 to 1880 era. I saw that the Wright and Ditson guide has 7 teams listed as being the Actives. None of the cities started with the letter B. So, maybe this is a later era and none of the players were recognizable to me. Not sure what the "B" stands for though but definitely thought it to be a baseball team because of the positions on the players bibs.

ramram · #5 01-06-2019, 12:23 AM

I know a lot of town teams had a secondary (or junior or "muffin") team. I wonder if the "B" could relate to that.

Rob M

barrysloate · #6 01-06-2019, 04:52 AM

The Wright & Ditson Guide listed teams with some prominence. The team pictured here is likely an unknown town team. I say it is around 1885-90, and while an interesting image it has some significant condition issues.

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