Hi Mike! What does intrinsic value mean? The value of the paper? When I say minimal value I mean a lot less than an actual period piece like a proof. I think someone might pay $50-$100 for a piece like this but I would be surprised if someone would pay what an actual period proof would go for. We describe these pieces in the Old Judge book. The pieces that I have previously seen appear to have been originally created by the owner of a group of glass plate negatives. Those negatives were original and interesting, but were not particularly useful for display. Because of this, at some time after the Old Judge period, the owner of the negatives made prints for display and these print may be what we are seeing today. The images were at that time were not made to deceive, just to create something useful. However, the negatives still exist and I guess that images that appear could have also been made from the negatives in recent years. In the early 2000s I got a negative of Tug Wilson and had a positive image made by a local photographer. I believe it is pictured in the book.
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