New Buck Ewing cabinet card, provenance needed?

[bigfanNY]

The Buck did not stop for that photo..

[rhettyeakley]

What we can tell from the two photos and the extent of the similarity…

They are both Human
They both have Ears
They are both likely Male

…that is about it.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Yawn. Are we being trolled?

Sincerely,

William H. "Shoeless Joe" Bonney

[robertsmithnocure]

Detroit58, is this you on ebay with the Cy Young rookie?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/13429904093...sAAOSwYpNjWGBi

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item...relics&_sop=16

[bigfanNY]

"Not CY Young " listing also has these gems. The middle photo is alleged to be Mike Kelly!!!
At some point you cross a line between being really bad a photo matching and ......
Jonathan Sterling

[Schwertfeger1007]

This guy is something else....

[G1911]

I'd vote this is a joke, but there appear to be many collectors that think any card ever made must picture a baseball player.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

"Not CY Young " listing also has these gems. The middle photo is alleged to be Mike Kelly!!!
At some point you cross a line between being really bad a photo matching and ......
Jonathan Sterling

That " King Kelly" is nowhere close!

[rjackson44]

Its not buck ewing not even close

[doug.goodman]

96.7 % similarity scores

[Klrdds]

OK I'll bite . I usually don't get involved in this sort of thing . I basically post on the autograph side but here I go .
I feel it is not Buck Ewing for the following anatomical reasons (I am a dentist with a practice concentrated on implant restorations and cosmetics ) so here I go :

1.The Helix of the ear in the left photo is compressed close to the scalp on the right in the Buck photo the Helix protrudes away from the scalp.
2.On the left photo the Antihelix is larger than the Antihelix in the Buck photo
3.On the left photo the External Auditory Meatus is larger in diameter and rises higher in the left photo than in the Buck photo
4.The Tragus in the left photo is lower and more pointed than in Buck's photo
5.The Lobe in the left photo is not attached ( it's called free in some terminology ) to the face / posterior cheek area above the TMJ area with a clearly defined separation between the face and ear lobe and this face / ear lobe area while in Buck's photo the same area appears attached lower with little or no separation between the face / jaw and ear lobe . This is a genetic trait passed from parents to offspring.
6.The angle of emergence of the ear from the head on the left photo is less with a farther back position than in the Buck photo
7. The distance from the head to the helix of the ear and from the head to the lobe is greater in Buck's photo than in the photo on the left
8. Lastly the overall gross ear position in the photo on the left appears higher in relation to the mandibular ( lower ) jaw angle /line than in Buck' photo .
Also remember the eyes remain the same size from birth to death and the basic socket form doesn't change during our life either , it may wrinkle but the shape remains the same unless you get an eyelid tuck
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I say it's not Buck Ewing and I've been looking at and studying baseball for over 50 years.

So there's my facial analysis from looking at faces for years . If wrong I will apologize .

[Fred]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

What we can tell from the two photos and the extent of the similarity…

They are both Human
They both have Ears
They are both likely Male

…that is about it.

Rhett, you missed something - they appear to have eyes and a nose. I just wrote a testimonial in another thread about how observant and keen our board members are when it comes to these things, and now this...