1914 Babe Ruth M. Lantern Slide ?

[The Owner 3]

I never said anything about it being made from the original negative. I'm saying that if it was made maliciously and for profit from getting an image off the web, that's how the result would look. And it's not like what's on the slide. It was just a comparison. Nothing more.

I'm trying to find out how it was made. I never said that it came from the original negative. Maybe a picture of a picture with film to make a new "not original" negative that is much lesser quality. There were kits made during that time to take a photo and transfer the photo onto a glass slide or transparent film.

I'm just trying to figure it out. And to do that, I'm comparing what the slide image looks like compared to what it might look like if someone was trying to print from a web image. Never said the original negative.

[The Owner 3]

What I was saying is, if the image on the glass slide had the half tone dots, I would chalk it up to having been taken off the web and printed on transparent paper and sandwiched between 2 glass slides (and then it would definitely be fake). I was using that as an example of what a malicious person might do to sell this. And it's most likely that this person wouldn't have access to the original, so they'd have to pull it from the web.

And if it looked like that, you'd never hear from me again because I would know how it was made and I'd move on. The fact that it looks different from that makes me want to look deeper into how and when it was made. Clearly, not from the original negative because of the quality, but by some other means.

Isn't what this is for? For information? For figuring something out? I'm not saying it's real or fake. I'm looking to figure it out.