Here's my favorite example of a borderless Conlon 8x10. Clarity of this image is off the charts, which is something you just don't get with the Conlon 8x10's that have borders:
Chic Gandil / sometime between 1913-1915
And here's a great example of a Conlon with borders (left) that is grainy and washed out:
Eddie Grant / early 1910