Left: 'Vintage World Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz Cabinet Card Photograph c. 1890s'; Ended: May 2021; Sold for US $681.00; 13 bids from six bidders
Right: 'Vintage Chess Player Wilhelm Steinitz Johannes Zukertort Cabinet Card c. 1890s'; Ended: Jun 2021; Sold for US $864.00; 23 bids from eight bidders
The images on both cards are well known. In fact, I found no other copies of the image on the right. More common is a similar image with Zukertort facing the camera and Steinitz studying the board.
The description of both cards added only the dimensions:-
Left: Approximate dimensions: 4.25” W x 6.5” H. • Back of card (handwritten): 'William Steinitz, Chess player; Champion of the world for 25 years; New Yorker but lived in Upper Montclair (N.J.)'
Right: Approximate dimensions: 4” W x 6.5” H. Cabinet card appears to have been trimmed on left side.
I have another copy of the image on the left. The eBay description for that card said,
An extremely rare cabinet photograph of William Steinitz (1836-1900); Chess champion of the world, 1866-1894. by Benj. Falk (New York). c.1880. Image measures approx. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Very good condition.
What's a cabinet card? The Wikipedia page Cabinet card starts,
The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4+1/4 by 6+1/2 inches). [...] The carte de visite [NB: CDV] was displaced by the larger cabinet card in the 1880s.
A few years ago I did a couple of posts on chess CDVs, where the more recent was Brady CDVs (September 2016).
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