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10-10-2007, 11:46 AM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>So I decided to see what I could do to make nice display pieces because I wanted to get my cabinet photos out of light and safely locked away in my safe deposit and on a whim this morning I made a trip to Kinkos and the antique store. To my surprise it was way too easy and for $1.50 I produced this in about 5 minutes time and it looks way too real. I marked the back in case this ever gets out of my hands.<br /><br /> <img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/fakeNI1.jpg"> <br /> <img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/fakeNI2.jpg"> <br />
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10-10-2007, 01:11 PM
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Dan- that is scary.<br /><br />I remember the days before scanning when I used to make color photocopies for customers, and remarked how lifelike they looked. I'm sure there is quite a bit of this going on.
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10-10-2007, 01:17 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>I have noticed it starting to creep up on ebay, but thankfully so far the only ones I've seen are not good....as in using a mount that was no longer in use for that particular era photo or using a well known photo on a small town photography studio card.
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10-10-2007, 01:36 PM
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>The next thing you know, people will start creating fake baseball cards.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/11/94805230_d93985b294.jpg"><br /><br />Max
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10-10-2007, 02:42 PM
Posted By: <b>Clint</b><p>Dan, that's funny you used a Falls City cabinet card.<br /><br />Clint
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10-10-2007, 05:35 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Clint, I thought about that when I was looking through them. <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14> I couldn't find a Lincoln cabinet which is what I wanted.<br /><br />I framed that Falls City photo yesterday and it looks great. I'll have to take a pic and post it here when I get a chance.
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10-10-2007, 06:31 PM
Posted By: <b>Clint</b><p>That sounds good Dan. Can't wait to see it.<br /><br />Clint
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10-10-2007, 10:51 PM
Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>There's been plenty of problems with fake images for a while now with the highly collectible civil war market. They use period mounts with digital images glued over an original low value common image just like you've done. It can scare you from the market rather quickly.<br /><br />Rob M.<br /><br />P.S. Doesn't "fake reprint" actually mean that it's NOT a reprint? <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />
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10-11-2007, 03:12 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Interesting phenomenon here that these both look almost identical colorwise with the naked eye, but the scanner really brightens up the "fake reprint" <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14> <br /><br /><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/fakeni4.jpg">
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10-15-2007, 11:23 PM
Posted By: <b>henry moses</b><p>are fortunately rather EZ to spot in person with any simple magnifying device. If there's any dot matrix it's no photo but a mechanical copy. Images copied from original negatives (not ness. a wrong/dishonest thing) or items RE-PHOTOGRAPHED are quite a bit more difficult.