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Posted By: hankron

This Cobb photo was featured in the Pre-1930 cards, and recently relisted.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=73433&item=5107451102&rd=1

The photo is not original and not made close to 1912. This is not to suggest that it has no value and shouldn't be bid upon, but that it should be priced accordingly. I've done my best to keep mum on these eBay issues, but this one keeps on being relisted and started to bug me.

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Posted By: steve k

I worked in a "specialty" camera shop for 4 years. Many people don't realize that you still take a very old camera, even from the early 1900s, and get film for it and take a picture. The picture can be developed in different ways such as through a specialty photo shop lab or with a picture developing kit at home in a darkroom. Closeup lenses can be retrofitted on the old camera to take a picture of a picture. There are also other ways of making a picture such as this. I'm not sure what that picture is but it definitely isn't an original from 1912.

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Posted By: Julie

Although the numbers on the back seem to me to be typical of a much later date (and anyone can write "1912" on the back of a photo), I would have been fooled b y the paper--loos more '30ish to me actually--but the photo is blurry and cropped unattractively. Anyway, thanks.

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Posted By: jay behrens

Good lord, I could barely read that description.

Jay

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Posted By: hankron

This style of snapshot, with the white border and distinct deckle edges, dates circa 1940s. I'm sure many board members will find 1940s family snapshots with the exact style.



This is a late 1940s snapshot of Joe Louis in South America, photographed by his trainer Mannie Seamon.