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Originally Posted by benjulmag
Since there are many many more Red Stockings CdVs/trade cards that have survived, we can surmise they were printed in much greater quantity, thus likely causing degradation to the negative. Given the extraordinary rarity of the 1865 Atlantics CdV image, likely much less were printed leading to the question whether the quantity printed was enough to cause discernable degradation to the negative.
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David (Cycleback) could answer this question - I have sent him a link to this thread.
Regardless of technical issue with re-using negatives, I believe the image degradation on this photo was done intentionally (real or not real).