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Judge Dred (Fred)CDV = carte-de-visite
The main characteristics of cdv photos from the 1860s are: thin, poor quality mount card with square corners; photos hand cut and poorly aligned with card; no details on back, or at most a photgrapher's stamp and/or signature.
I pulled that from the internet - plagerism at its worst.
Sorry to stray from the main topic.