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Bob LemkePlease allow it to sink in that the items being discussed are NOT tintypes. They are photographic prints. For those new to the thread, the discussion is whether the prints were made within hours, days or months of the original glass-plate negative, or years or decades later.
Those who have access to a Robert Edward/Mastro auction catalog for the March, 2001, sale, might wish to refer to Lot 138 where a virtually identical item of a different player from the same "find" as the Flynn was offered. That lot included a stamped, dated envelope used to send the photo from "Wendel Photographic Art Studios" of NYC to the pictured player, Thomas Doran of Omaha. While it is not specified in the auction description nor pictured, I am told by the catalger the envelope was dated proximate to the original issue period for the Old Judge cards, i.e., circa 1888. (The lot sold for $3,537.)