New Buck Ewing cabinet card, provenance needed?

[BobC]

When a 30+ year old Jordan photo is sold, he, and likely the photographer, are both still alive and have either marked the photo or can otherwise personally verify it is Jordan if there is any question.

Your cabinet/photo is possibly 130+ years or so old, the subject and photographer both long dead, along with anyone else alive at the time it was taken to identify who this is. And with apparently no markings or writings on it to name who the photo is of, the photographer that took it, or from what studio it came. At least none that you've shared with us. There are no uniforms or signs, background buildings or landmarks, or anything else in the photo to help identify who it is and where/when the photo was taken either. And the subject is wearing a suit and tie, sporting a handlebar mustache, and wearing a bowler hat I believe, all just like so many men wore and sported back in the day.

And just because it may resemble Ewing somewhat, still doesn't make it provable it is him. I've seen photos of numerous doppelgangers over the years, much better than this one. And with no additional evidence, markings, provenance, or even a verifiable chain of ownership through till today, what you have is a nice clean old photo/cabinet of an unidentified man from probably back in the late 1800's, and that's it. Unless you can somehow get one of the renowned and respected baseball historians or so-called experts to go out on a limb and declare that is Ewing. But I wouldn't go holding my breath waiting for that to happen if I were you. Good luck otherwise.