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Posted By: David

I also want to note that, while I give too-detailed answers if asked (in other words, don't ask), I'm not a nit-picker when it comes to others' photographs. I'm well aware that it's an esoteric area where judgement and vagueness is involved (I often could describe a photo more accurately than 'probably 1930s-40s'), and technical errors are often just technicalities no one will care about other than me. While it's different with high end photographs, with most inexpensive news service photographs technical and even minor dating errors will have little to no effect on the value (pehaps marking a $7 photo down to $6). Many collectors are just looking for a nice vintage or at least official photograph of their favorite person to hang on their wall, and I've often bought later generation images because I thought it looked nice and the price seemed right.