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Message:: [QUOTE="2manycats, post: 3297926, member: 13761"]Almost certainly a repro. Here's a picture of genuine newspapers from 1861 (upper) and 1892 (lower). Notice that the 1861 paper is whiter: Ken is correct, rag paper stays white and flexible, wood pulp paper degrades because of acid & lignin in the pulp. Wood pulp came into greater and greater use after the Civil War. Note also the 'depth of impression' caused by the type sinking into the paper, which allows you to see the text from the other side as raised areas, best seen in raking light. This is more evident in the earlier paper, because the presses were cruder. A repro is likely to be a photolithograph, which will have NO depth of impression, because it's not a relief-printing method - though reproductions can be made from relief plates as well, it would be a more complicated and expensive project. But if it's totally flat, it's totally fake. [ATTACH=full]298654[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]