More on the subject of seller/auction house scans

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by Ease

Wow, what a difference. Could someone post a side by side of the auction photos and Todd's?

I placed the Altoona Baker fronts together and there is a differece between Probstein's scan and Todd's scan. Todd said that he didn't adjust the settings and I have to assume that neither did Probstein, and look at the difference.

This is exaclty the point I was trying to make last night in the other thread. You can scan the same card with two different scanners using only the factory settings, and the images can appear different. Todd's scan is darker. Even the red on the flip is darker.

FWIW, I like Todd's scan better.

[nolemmings]

Thanks for noticing--it would be even more pronounced if you were to put the back scans side by side.

BTW, as mentioned, here are a couple of other Successful Farming cards with the inking void on "A" in IOWA.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

BTW, as mentioned, here are a couple of other Successful Farming cards with the inking void on "A" in IOWA.

Along those lines, I've owned a handful of Green-Joyce backs. Two of them had a very small area of missing ink on one of the letters (I don't remember which one, maybe the "J").