2 new Tallies for JustinC

[JustinG]

Congrats to the new owner

Looking forward to seeing them up close.

Regards,
JustinG

[John R.]

Gneisenau will be my first Schlachtschiff so I'm very excited but also wondering about the reverse. Fingers crossed.

Possible cut cotton example. Hard to say from the photos though. If you would scan it at 400 dpi, just a couple letters front and back that would be helpful.

It was very hard to say from the images provided by the seller so it was a bit of a chance on your part.

However, I think it stands a high chance of being fine and the photos were a result of poor images taken with a flash.

John

[Trance_Eyes]

I agree, my bet is your on a winner!! Will wait eaglerly to see if they are all good

[John R.]

I cannot emphasize enough that if you are going to collect tallies, you must buy a scanner--the cheap ones that are around $100 and do nothing but scan. Makes it very easy for others to help. Without such a scan the posting of blurry images are not particularly useful.

Sellers on ebay do not know this of course. They just take a camera and snap away and think it is enough. Sometimes it is. However, with many tallies, you need to make sure and certainly if you are going to post here those higher dpi images are necessary.

This is especially so with mint gold wire (it is not really wire of course) and cellon/cotton tallies to tell them apart. You can be fooled thinking a mint gold wire is cellon for example since you are used to seeing tarnished gold wire tallies and assume it is cellon when it is not. In hand, just angle the gold wire tally a bit and if it glistens like gold, it is gold wire and not cellon among other differences.

If you are going to post the entire tally and it is a long tally, it will not fit in the scanner. Then, you scan it in two parts and photo shop the two parts together into one tally. Very simple.

John