Question about photo types

[doug.goodman]

Apologies if this question is posted in the wrong section, but I'm thinking I got it right.

So, I just received my first psa graded "type 1" photos (Preacher Roe, image that was used for Topps 1953 card; and Carl Erskine 1951 team issued press photo). I promptly cut them out of the holder with my wife's sewing scissors (don't tell her!). Thank you to psa for making pictures easier to remove than 1956 pins, but that's a different topic.

My question :

On the back of the label it lists definitions of Types 1 thru 4.

Type 1 - A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, during the period (within approximately two years of when the picture was taken).

Type 2 - A photograph, developed from the original negative, during a later period (more than approximately two years after the picture was taken).

Type 3 - blah blah blah

Type 4 - blah blah, blah blah blah


If I understand correctly, the only difference between a type 1 or a type 2 is the time frame when it was developed. They are both first generation photos from the original negative, right?

If a photographer (maybe George Burke) had taken a picture of a player (let's say Hack Wilson) and then not developed the film until the next spring, and then not printed a photo until the summer after that, then that photo would be a type 2, and there would be no such thing as a type 1. Right?

Seems a tad bit too subjective to me, but what do I know.

Thanx for listening to me ramble,
Doug


PS - I took the attached pix from the original ebay listings