Type I photos... why are their multiples?

[GoCubsGo32]

Originally Posted by drcy

By chance, I'm designing and setting up as we speak an online short course on authenticating news photos. I hope to have it ready to go in a couple of weeks.

Will cover everything one needs to know.

This is honestly, what the photo collecting world needs.Looking forward to it David!

[TUM301]

Originally Posted by GoCubsGo32

This is honestly, what the photo collecting world needs.Looking forward to it David!

+ 1, Count me in as another 54`er looking forward to this. Hey Gary how you doing sir, hope all`s well with you and the crew !

[prewarsports]

I was basically saying what David said. There are still new things I am learning every day about vintage photos whether it is a nuance in a stamp, weird captions, new photographers etc. If you are dealing with run of the mill "easy stuff" you can self authenticate and be pretty safe with a HUGE majority of photographs with a small bit of knowledge and sticking to dealers you trust.

To agree with others, yes photographs can be VERY tricky if you dive into blank backed items etc. If you want to start buying 1930's baseball photos stamped on the back by news services, you will be fine with a little education. If you want to start buying blank back Marilyn Monroe studio photographs on ebay, you are going to need the hobby equivalent of a PhD!

It is fun! Start small, educate yourself and you stick to people you trust and allow you to ask questions and before you know it, you will be off to the races!

[drcy]

Yes, the vast majority of news photos are pretty straightforward to authenticate, in part because they are often stamped and tagged. Many literally have the date stamped on them. And the course is about news photos specifically.

There will be debates about obscure photos, such as a 1800s cabinets and CDVs. Though these debates often aren't about whether or not the photo is original, but the specific date range and perhaps who is the pictured team.