Photos in Legendary's Auction

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Ladder7

This aspect of the hobby is in it's infancy. To protect naive buyers, and there are many., You've got to agree, there needs to be some mechanism to distinguish the original/period shots from; those done (decades) later, transmitted by wire and photos of old photos -to protect naive photo buyers. The fact is, some of these are technically reprints.

I believe Legendary is acting irresponsibly and folks are going to get scrood.

I will admit to being a naive photo shopper (not going to be a buyer). From my limited understanding, photos carry value when they were printed from the original negative around the time the photo was taken. The same photo produced in 2004 would not have that value. As such, mixing both of these types of photos together is almost like them selling the baseball cards raw and mixing in reprints with the authentic ones and not saying which are which. Some are original and worth quite a bit, others were printed recently, and although the image on the front is the same, the value is quite different. As far as cards go, that is unthinkable, but it seems that's what they've done here for photos.

[HRBAKER]

Matt, that is why I think the safest approach is to assume that no one has any idea when any of them were printed for sure. Thus rendering "timeframes" tied to designations for categorization and pricing a substantial "reach" IMO. And I am a photo shopper and buyer.

[scgaynor]

At the very least, you can usually narrow it down to a 10 year period based on paper type, even when there is no stamping. That pretty much comes with experience though. Otherwise you have to go with stamping, type of paper used for the caption sheet, etc.

Also, famous images were often produced over and over again, but the vast majority of the mundane images were produced for one time only and the dating on the photo will be the one and only time that it was printed. In other words, you want to be more careful when buying an image of Don Larsen pitching his perfect game than an image of Smead Jolly standing in the batters box.

Scott

[drc]

My opinion is Legendary should have done a better job describing individual photos. I would expect more info from an eBay seller.

However, as someone earlier noted, Doug gave a clear and reasoned answer about a photo when asked.

I'd offer them my services, but I have an ex-girlfriend who lives in Chicago and wouldn't want to chance bumping into her. Just joking. She's in Minneapolis, but that's still too close to chance.

[Leon]

I think they should have done a better job at describing them. The photos that were made around the time of the actual event will be worth more, as already said. Some of these are on "whiter" looking paper and those are the ones that I would think would be later. The ones on the older looking, sort of brownish paper, are the more original to year taken, ones. It's actually fairly easy to tell them apart when holding them. I am far, far from a photo expert but have handled a few. Also, the older ones will have mfg/age marks in the pictures themselves...little bumps, bruises etc.....I think that gives them their authentic look too and makes them look more original to me.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by drc

My opinion is Legendary should have done a better job describing individual photos. I would expect more info from an eBay seller.

However, as someone earlier noted, Doug gave a clear and reasoned answer about a photo when asked.

I'd offer them my services, but I have an ex-girlfriend who lives in Chicago and wouldn't want to chance bumping into her. Just joking. She's in Minneapolis, but that's still too close to chance.

David:
Usually, women don't hang out anywhere near the vicinity of where sports memorabilia resides. So there's probably no danger in visiting Legendary to provide some necessary assistance.

If your "ex" is the exception to this rule, can you introduce me?

[drc]

If she's too good for me, she's certainly too good for you

[perezfan]

I'm sure you're right.

Plus, it would be a disaster if she was knowledgeable enough to know how much I really spend on this stuff