I was intrigued by this photo purported to be an original from 1915. But it just looks weird. The stamp on the back is in black ink, which I've never seen from a Detroit News photo - they're always blue, and the photo itself just looks too pristine. The guys is selling it as an original for the meager sum of $999. Any thoughts? Restrike with a fake stamp? Are fake stamps starting to occur on a regular basis?
This is what he wrote to me when I asked:
Original photos bearing the photographers stamp are not always date stamped. In fact they usually were only dated when they were used by a photo service for insertion in the newspaper or other publication and would then usually bear the photo service or wire service's stamps also. Original photos would also often also bear the names of those pictured hand written or sometimes typed depending on the photographer.
This is an original photo and the image was taken in 1915 as I have also seen this image as a used wirephoto bearing the photo service's paper caption with date taken and description.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1915-BABE-RU...item35e3867fce
