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Originally Posted by ScottR81
well yes and no on the ebay, I was in las vegas and had no reception in my room so i was out bid originally but contacted the guy that won it and bought in from him for a bit of an increased price. I wanted it that bad. I see its not a type 1 which is fine, I just would love to know if this was produced for sure in 1919. That would be great.
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I really don't think there's any way to tell for sure if it's a so-called Type I or not.
Studio photographers were really great at reproducing their own negs without much if any loss of quality. We're not talking busy newsrooms here like Yee/Fogel allude to in their book under the Type III definition.
Block lettering like that, it very well could have been printed on the negative (in black ink BTW), backwards. Wouldn't have to be tiny as negs were much bigger in that era. I'd wager that was a 5x7 sized neg or thereabouts.
I had/have many original negs..........and probably copy negs to........but negs nonetheless with printing and credit stamps etched directly on them.
I'm sure studio photographers who were used to the practice, weren't that confused by the process.
No way to tell exactly if the print is 1919, but it's probably fairly close if it's not.
I think it's probably a great pick-up, whatever anybody wants to classify it as.
09-15-2011, 02:17 PM
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