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Originally Posted by rhettyeakley
I agree with Greig,
Everything about this piece screams “fake” to me. The fact that it looks so amateurishly done, no period label, wrong date to inhance value, and to top it all off they left the photographers notations and writing from the negative on the finished piece. If you were making this to sell or for some other purpose they would have done a good job doing so and nobody would leave the random marks at the top of that photo, those would have been the first things cropped out of that photo.
Regardless of what it looks like under a microscope it doesn’t pass the initial eye test of something done during that period.
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You haven't seen many lantern slides have you?
They can be totally original and also totally shoddy work.
A lot of what's put there was made by companies like keystone, and they're very professionally done, often for educational use. The rest vary a lot in quality. Everything from nicely produced to just an image taped between glass. I've seen some labeled with nothing more than pencil and some cloth tape. Some not labeled at all. Those were usually done from someone's own photos either to have slides to show, or for a talk about something at a club or church function.
As far as I know they're all copies, though I suppose some amateur ones could be from an original negative reverse processed.