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Message:: [QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 9537739, member: 33"]This is complicated! A professional photographer like Gutekunst would have noticed the print was upside down on the mount, I think. And wouldn't want to claim it as their own to sell to anybody. The card mount is of a style from the early 20th century. Gutekunst lived until 1917 and still owned the studio almost until his death, according to this. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Gutekunst" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Gutekunst" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Gutekunst</a> So all I can do is guess or speculate on how this print got onto the card mount. Suppose somebody owned a different photo that was on that mount, and for some reason decided to glue the engraving on top of it? And glued it upside down partly because this was not a production of the Gutekunst studio, and they just needed a nice mat for the picture? As moreotherstuff guessed, this could either be an original engraving or a photograph of the engraving. As he also mentioned, it's possible that there is still another picture underneath it.[/QUOTE]