Photos in Legendary's Auction

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Ladder7

This aspect of the hobby is in it's infancy. To protect naive buyers, and there are many., You've got to agree, there needs to be some mechanism to distinguish the original/period shots from; those done (decades) later, transmitted by wire and photos of old photos -to protect naive photo buyers. The fact is, some of these are technically reprints.

I believe Legendary is acting irresponsibly and folks are going to get scrood.

I will admit to being a naive photo shopper (not going to be a buyer). From my limited understanding, photos carry value when they were printed from the original negative around the time the photo was taken. The same photo produced in 2004 would not have that value. As such, mixing both of these types of photos together is almost like them selling the baseball cards raw and mixing in reprints with the authentic ones and not saying which are which. Some are original and worth quite a bit, others were printed recently, and although the image on the front is the same, the value is quite different. As far as cards go, that is unthinkable, but it seems that's what they've done here for photos.