What is the Type 1 Type 2 photo designation
 

I am sure this has been discussed many times, but what do the Type 1 and Type 2 designation's mean on baseball photos. Any help is always appreciated

Tony Turner

Tony,
It depends on who you ask. There have been several threads on the subject on the Memorabilia side.

Jeff

Type 1; A photo born, once little baby negative emerges from the uterus (roll).

A photo becomes a Type 2, the day after it's second birthday party. "The Terrible Twos".

It's sorta black magic to me. As I read it., Determination likely occurs due to stamped dates, paper age and/or quality of the negative that produced the image. Or perhaps;

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Type I is original-- made from the original negative at the time.

Type II means it was made from the original negative put at a later period.


It's always easy to remember that original = #1. I agree the other stuff can be hard to remember.

Some folks calls it black magic, some calls it hokum. :D;)
Me, I just buy photos I like and try not to worry about it.

.................and a vintage Wire transmission photo of a Type 1 photo is a Type 3 photo. (I believe Soundphoto, Laserphoto, Telephoto, all fall within these parameters to), but don't quote me on that.

Now, if you ever run across a Wire Transmission photo, of a photo of a photo, that was produced 3 years after the original negative,..........you might want to just kick yourself in the head, spin around three times and chant the alphabet backwards, before randomly selecting a number from a hat and plastering it onto a Beckett or PSA photo holder.

:D

Thanks
 

Thanks everyone. There is a sporting news collection photo of my favorite prewar player to collect that is ending tonight on ebay. This will be my first photo purchase if I win it so I was just wondering about them. Thanks again

Tony Turner