wire photo type 1?

[Forever Young]

Buy this book in teh below thread. It defines the Type System.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=139133

But no, a true wire photo(product of a machine) is not a TYPE 1. You can go on the PSA website an dthey have general definitions as well.

[JoeyF1981]

Does this indicate its a wire photo or a type 1?

[prewarsports]

Thats not a wire photo. People use the term "wire" interchangably with "press" when in reality they are two totally different things. Paper captions are not on the back of wire photos unless they were put there after the fact. The need for a paper tagline or "slug" was obsolete with the advent of the wire.

Rhys

[JoeyF1981]

So can press photos be type 1's and if so by the info on the back does it indicate it is?

[D. Bergin]

Would be best to examine the front of the photo. I have seen paper tags on the back of "Sound", "Radio" and "Tele" photos which are in a similar category to "Wire" photos and would fall into the Type III designation.

Chances are yours is a Type 1 press photo, but the whole Type 1 designation can be a bit tricky sometimes.

[prewarsports]

Technically a "press" photo can be all four types, if you want to use that system which is very limited in its applicability but people like it so I will play along.

A "wire" photo (type 3) is a Press photo, but it can ony ever be a type 3. Type 1, and type 2 photos depend on what the photo ws developed from and a type 4 refers to the fact that it is made from a copy negative.

Sometimes the company that received a wire photo would put a paper tag on the back for cataloging purposes as was stated above, but that is a VERY rare occurance, they were not issued with paper tags.

Rhys

[JoeyF1981]