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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vintage Maven, post: 870586, member: 11768&quot;]A clearness to the image is most certainly a good indication of a first generation print, the further along, of course you lose some of that. A fabric back print is a good indication of an antique print, in particular if it’s an albumen photograph, fabric backed photos are mostly used from I believe around the 1800’s till early 1900’s, but I’ve seen some appear during the 1920’s and 1930’s which not common does occur in the antique world. Gelatin Silver became popular somewhere before the 1920’s and is used into modern times (shiny glossy photos).All that said, you need to know the characteristics and how these photos generally age; as well as thickness of photo paper etc (older albumen prints were thin paper hence fabric backing, for example and some gelatin silver prints are thin as well as what is known as double weight which is a bit thicker photo). It sounds like you may have some vintage photos that could be up for some serious consideration there!</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that makes some sense at all, I can get a little “photo-geeky” lol VM</p><p><br /></p><p>*one final thought I edited in, movie studios also did prints to promote an actor or movie, many first generation ones I’ve come across may have a photographer’s stamp or movie studio stamp, pls credit so and so, something like that, but I have seen first generation prints made the year of the photo taken without it, which is a little tougher to determine authenticity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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