T5 Vs. Pinkerton Postcards

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Posted By: Mark

How can you tell the difference between a T5 w/o a mount and a Blankback Pinkerton Postcard?

Are Pinkerton postcards actual photos just like that of T5's?

Thanks,

Mark

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Posted By: Joe D.

Mark,

The postcards / score cards are NOT actual photos.

They are a printing press rendition of a photo.


The T5s are real photos.

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Posted By: Mark

Thanks for the feedback.

I have a beat blankback Bender w/o a mount and it
appears to be a photo with gloss and minor cracking;
similar to T200/222's.

Mark

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Posted By: davidcycleback

The postcard versions have a black and white dot pattern in the image-- easy to see under strong magnification. The T5s have no dot pattern because, as already noted by Joe, the are real photos. The T200s and T222s also are real photographs like T5s, so if your Pinkerton resembles your Fatimas and has no dot pattern, it's a T5 (sans mount) not a blank back postcard. Gloss and light surface cracking as you describe is common to real photographs of the day, including the Fatimas.

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Posted By: leon

You have a T5 photograph with no mount. The Pinkerton postcards are on thick cardboard...as most postcards are....take care.....