Photos Question - Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, etc.

[Lucas00]

I personally don't know how images were duplicated that long ago (in terms of type 3 images) Enlargement and contact are the only ways I know of that existed to make duplicates and I believe both needed a negative.

I know to actually get the photos into the papers/publications you had to turn the image into a halftone.

I'm not familiar with the process of creating a copy from a duplicate negative. And I can't find how it was done.

[steve B]

Making a copy negative is pretty simple, although there are a few ways to do it.

Film whether it was glass plate or film, came in both negative and positive versions. Think slide film, which is positive film developed and used directly in slides.
That could be bought not only in camera film sizes, but in sheets. The same for negative film.
(Or for some films, it's the same emulsion but developed differently.)

With an original negative in an enlarger, just expose it onto the right film, develop properly and there's your copy negative. (Can also be done as a contact print.)

If you're making hundreds of prints, it's good practice to generate a copy negative to do production with so the original doesn't get damaged.

If the person doing the copying is really good, it can be hard to tell, especially if the original and the copy are both film. Even moreso if they get sneaky and do a film to film contact print with the emulsion sides together.

Lots of ways to play around with stuff in a professional darkroom.


Halftones are done by photographing an original through a screen.

[jjbond]

I’m tempted to send it in to PSA to see what they think of it (this had been my plan if I was convinced it was a Type 1), but considering I now think I overpaid for this, spending another $80 on it doesn’t make sense (especially as PSA’s opinion is also questionable…)

[prewarsports]

If $299 for a period 1913 photograph of a major Hall of Famer from an important event in baseball history (regardless of potential PSA evaluation) is "overpaying" than please show me where other items like this can be purchased in bulk.

Full disclosure, I was the seller

[EddieP]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

If $299 for a period 1913 photograph of a major Hall of Famer from an important event in baseball history (regardless of potential PSA evaluation) is "overpaying" than please show me where other items like this can be purchased in bulk.

Full disclosure, I was the seller

+1

[jjbond]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

Full disclosure, I was the seller

Thank you for chiming in here. Hopefully my comments did not offend, and I certainly appreciated your openness about the photo.

I'm just trying to get a footing/understanding about this new interest/hobby, and clearly I am not the only one who finds the subject matter difficult.