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Old 05-30-2024, 09:06 AM
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Default Goodwin/Old Judge tintypes?

There's an interesting lot in a Hindman auction, a tintype "proof" of a Goodwin & Co. photo of Jocko Flynn.

I was surprised to see it — I thought that all of the Old Judge photos were shot on glass negatives. And a tintype would be a weird way to proof an image in the late 1880s. (There aren't any tins in the Goodwin book.)

(I see on ebay there's another tintype "proof" of a different Flynn pose, in much worse condition.)

Are these "real"? I don't think they're recent reproductions, but I'm skeptical that they were proofs used in making Old Judges. Are there others, besides these two Flynns?

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