In 20+ years of antique collecting, I have never seen a vintage tintype with vintage writing on the front of it. People would not obstruct something as valuable as a photo like that. These would come from the photographer in a paper slip frame at least which would allow for writing around the paper border or on the reverse. Had this been in a hard gutta-percha case or something like that, people usually just glued or jammed a paper slip in the case with an ID. This is why there are so many tintypes with no chance ever of being identified but a large number of CDV's have identifications. There is no chance in my opinion that the pencil writing was done before WW2. As one other observation, had someone actually taken the time to identify this photo, they would have identified all the guys, not just the famous one.
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05-07-2009, 09:58 AM
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