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Tenderfoot
This is the type of great western photo that an amateur can buy very cheaply. I sold a similar copy of this for 25$. That is not a bad price to get a photo like this. You can do a tremendous amount of research on a photo like this, and you get great practice to see the original cards and how the photos are attached to them.
Many modern fakes are using well printed cards, or even original cards themselves with a modern image pasted to the front of them. Original cabinet cards have original photo process albumen prints pasted on them - the photographs are very thin and pasted on usually with the best methods, leaving little glue residue. The edges of a fake cabinet photo where it meets the card, is too thick - this exposes the fakes, the photographs themselves often do not have a "dot matrix"
Make sure to practice and study before buying an Native American Indian, Western, or Civil War photograph. Many fake tintypes are also showing up.
