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Dan BrettaThere are people out there who are faking old pictures and are pretty good at it. That Portland postcard was a pretty good fake as far as making it look old goes...if he had done a better job of cutting it he might have fooled more people, but the winner of the auction is a very knowledgeable postcard and photo collector and he bid $140 on it. I doubt he honored the bid though because I contacted him about it and he said I wasn't the only person to give him the heads up)
I started collecting photos about 3 years ago and I was a bit uncertain going in. I can tell you that the more you handle the old photos you can just tell by looking them over. It also helps to buy from guys like Rhys if you are starting out because you know that you are getting the real deal. I bought a bunch of photos from him when I first started out because I knew I could trust him.
You should also buy David Rudd's photo guide
edited my first grade grammar mistake.