Opinions on Ruth Postcard

[bcbgcbrcb]

Sorry, Paul, but it doesn't look right to me either. Most all unique-type real photo postcards are more candid shots, this one seems too "staged" to me.

[Greenmonster]

I've suspected for a couple years that someone is putting out "homemade" RPPCs using a rubberstamp to create the AZO back with many of the cards being Yankee subjects, Ruth, Gehrig, 1927 team.

[steve B]

Good points, but all anyone needed to get Real photo cards was a negative or sometimes the raw film. A photo of a photo wouldn't be impossible.

I think some companies offered them in quantity too.

Steve B

[benchod]

first reaction is no good

[Jaybird]

Originally Posted by steve B

Good points, but all anyone needed to get Real photo cards was a negative or sometimes the raw film. A photo of a photo wouldn't be impossible.

I think some companies offered them in quantity too.

Steve B

Even a photo of a photo wouldn't have that degree of fuzziness throughout. I've seen a period photo of a Pittsburgh premium that was made into an RPPC and the clarity on that (although slightly out of focus) doesn't have the same quality. The stripes on this one are almost missing in places. That to me feels like a scan and then a print. The scan would lose the detail in some of the lighter areas as happened here.

All I can say is that after looking at hundreds of RPPCs, this one doesn't sit well with me. Not ruling it out and have no trouble admitting mistakes though so would be open to new information.