Posted 2 years ago
JimLinderman
(160 items)
A fine gent in his stylish Buffalo Coat. I am going to guess the coat is a puffy photography studio prop to help tenderfeet look like they've been to the Wild West.
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TintypesWhile most early photo processes involved paper or light metal plates, tint…
Mens CoatsCoats have been known to come in many colors, are sometimes lined with flee…
Nice photo and nice coat.
A warning: I have had photos copied here and then reprints listed on ebay. You may want to look into watermarking your images.
Scott
It is a tintype and would be hard to duplicate.
Probably not worth it to copy as a tin.
It would look nice/ sell well as a cabinet card!
I trust two things. One, that no one is going to copy my buffalo coat tintype. Two, that anyone who collects tintypes should know how to tell a fake. And there ARE fakes, but not too many yet. I imagine Native American and Civil War images for the most part, maybe some baseball players. I've collected tintypes a while, only had one fake. I also wrote a book about them "The Painted Backdrop" which you can find on Blurb. Oh...and anyone who makes and sells a fake photograph is not worth my attention for any reason. So don't.
Jim Linderman
The image would look awkward as a cabinet card.
Jim,
I just wanted to give you a heads up that there are scammers who use this site to create REPRINT images.
I didn't appreciate it that someone was making money off of an image that I owned, when I didn't authorize a reprint.
Thanks for posting it.
Scott
You can report the sellers on e-bay who are doing this. Have you? Report them and call e-bay.
Yes-- several times.
After looking at some images, I am not convinced that this is a buffalo coat.
Here is an example of a typical buffalo coat:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mountain-Man-Fur-Coat-antique-cabinet-photograph-/310232417756?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item483b4b05dc
There are pretty dramatic differences.
Scott
Fab coat. Fab photo.