Pictures on Estand need discussion

[PBR]

As a photo collector, I wouldn't feel comfortable with them.
Any other input?

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=606341
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=606343

[Eric JB]

For me those two photos are no period prints, but done much later.

That same version of the Walter Nowotney photo is going around for some time now.

Best

EJ

[kaiserwilhelm2]

I have seen that Luft photo before.

[PBR]

How do we behave here?
Should I inform the mods of this?

[Simon O.]

Thanks for letting me know TK, i'll add a post on each that a discussion thread on them has been opened.

[PBR]

You welcome Sir.

[lohengrin]

I am fairly certain that the Nowotny and Rommel photos are modern reproductions. The quality of the Nowotny photo is very poor and it is printed on questionable paper stock. I am confident to say that it was not printed from an original negative. The Rommel photos could be re-prints from an original negative, but the paper stock is again new or more likely fantasy AGFA BROVIRA. The Skorzeny photo has a small chance... I think that it would have to be examined once in the buyer's hands. I am not familiar with the image at all. I am very sorry for the seller, who likely spent some serious money to purchase these...

Mark

[12thPanzer]

I also agree, no good.

[Helbe]

FOr me these are reproductions too.
I'm pretty sure I've already seen them in period books.

[Nigromontanus]

my three photo sets

Aah yes, the experts. To the Nowotny photo: I have bought it in this forum. The seller had a relative who had talked it out from the brother of Nowotny. To the Rommel pics: I have bought them on this forum for the price I ask now. To the Skorzeny photo: I have bought it from a known photo dealer who also sells in this forum. As for the Nowotny and the Rommel photos I do not understand why they were not flagged first time they were sold here. I am not at all a photo collector, but I am 100% sure about the Nowotny and quite sure about the Skorzeny; since I am not an expert I cannot say about the Rommel, but to me it looks good. I think the fact that I did not scan them but made photos of them made the opinion rather adverse, but I do not have a scanner.

I must admit the pic of the pic quality is so bad that it does not let one form an opinion, which would have been a more qualified statement.

On the whole I must say that you experts are a bit too fast with flagging an item, which may result that at some time you may miss an opportunity. And - I think I am real expert in other collector field, I must tell you that you are not experts, but believers.

Simon, please delete the three offers from e-stand.

[Andrew Harris]

Aah yes, the experts. To the Nowotny photo: I have bought it in this forum. The seller had a relative who had talked it out from the brother of Nowotny. To the Rommel pics: I have bought them on this forum for the price I ask now. To the Skorzeny photo: I have bought it from a known photo dealer who also sells in this forum. As for the Nowotny and the Rommel photos I do not understand why they were not flagged first time they were sold here. I am not at all a photo collector, but I am 100% sure about the Nowotny and quite sure about the Skorzeny; since I am not an expert I cannot say about the Rommel, but to me it looks good. I think the fact that I did not scan them but made photos of them made the opinion rather adverse, but I do not have a scanner.

I must admit the pic of the pic quality is so bad that it does not let one form an opinion, which would have been a more qualified statement.

On the whole I must say that you experts are a bit too fast with flagging an item, which may result that at some time you may miss an opportunity. And - I think I am real expert in other collector field, I must tell you that you are not experts, but believers.

Simon, please delete the three offers from e-stand.

Not a problem. Make scans in the high resolution & tell us UF test results. Could you do this?

Rostyslav.

[Thälmannpionier]

And - I think I am real expert in other collector field, I must tell you that you are not experts, but believers.
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if your photos look bad and they do from the images you provided, you will have a hard time to find a potential buyer for them...the guys here look at period photos all day long because the collect and study the paper stuff..and Im confident they know what they are talking about..

[Nigromontanus]

I have understood that the pics are too bad for selling the photos, therefore I withdrew the offer. I will not buy a high resolution scanner and some UV-light to prove whatever (I must confess that I do not even know what should be the effect if put under UV-light). I bought them because I had some spare money and would have been happy to see them with a real enthusiast for these, but now I will put them back in the folder with all the other photos I ran across and I will die and my children will not believe that the folder cost that much money and do with it whatever...

[lohengrin]

I have understood that the pics are too bad for selling the photos, therefore I withdrew the offer. I will not buy a high resolution scanner and some UV-light to prove whatever (I must confess that I do not even know what should be the effect if put under UV-light). I bought them because I had some spare money and would have been happy to see them with a real enthusiast for these, but now I will put them back in the folder with all the other photos I ran across and I will die and my children will not believe that the folder cost that much money and do with it whatever...

I am very sorry that you got swindled. Loosing even few Euros is a shame. Please do believe me that even with scanner, these still will not become original period photos (at least the Nowotny and Rommel). UV-light can be of some help, as new photos look much brighter under it (it has to do with the type of chemicals used during production after 1945-48).
I would suggest to ask the guys here before making purchases in the future, especially involving rare images! Best regards, Mark