Timeline for Help ID a WW1 Plane
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| S Feb 8 at 15:03 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 8 at 14:43 | comment | added | Greg Parker | I do agree with you that what I have does absolutely looks like it came from the photo from the larger shot and that it might have been for a post card, or maybe for the family of a deceased pilot? | |
| Feb 8 at 13:14 | comment | added | IMil | @GregParker that's interesting. But for the reason I've mentioned above, I still think that your photo and that one on Fokker museum come from the same shot. And since yours is cropped, it has to be a copy. Otherwise it would have to be physically cut from a larger original, and why would anyone do it? But it may have been copied back during WW1, to make a postcard or whatever. | |
| Feb 8 at 12:41 | comment | added | Greg Parker | The box I bought has about 500 negatives of both glass and nitrate negatives in it and I bought them all for about 30 dollars, also the nitrate negatives were in a paper bag from a developer and the print is all in gothic German, I'm 100 percent certain they are not copies and period correct. Now for the print in question I don't know why they are nearly identical. I do appreciate the feed back. Thanks. | |
| Feb 8 at 10:14 | comment | added | IMil | @GregParker I'm not an expert, so a zoomed in picture will be of no use to me. What I know is that: a) negatives may be duplicated by contact printing, which almost preserves the original quality, b) glass plates used to be produced far longer than most people think (based on this thread photrio.com/forum/threads/… , even in the last decade). And I suppose the Berlin street sellers are not above passing copies as originals to increase price. | |
| Feb 8 at 3:20 | comment | added | Greg Parker | IMil I'm just flipping back and forth in 2 windows and it does look like I have a cropped copy of the full picture. I scanned the negative I have and got a 20 meg file. I reversed (flipped) it to match the link and zoomed in on the markings on the casting of the motor and it can be clearly seen and letters can be made out but it can't be read. For a copy of a negative done probably a 100 or so years ago I don't know what to say. If you would like a zoomed in part of my picture I could work on that this weekend. I'll dig up some of the other plains in the collection and post them to. | |
| Feb 8 at 0:00 | comment | added | IMil | @PortreeKid it seems to me that this is not the same series, but literally the same photo. If you overlay them in an image editor, they are identical to the last crease on the uniform, and the face doesn't move the tiniest bit. Negatives may be duplicated (and maybe flipped in process?), so it's likely that the OP got a copy. | |
| Feb 7 at 17:45 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | It seems to be Emil Werner, not Werner Emil, right? (The problem being that both "Werner" and "Emil" are German first names, but of course either one could be the family name here. The answer has it the other way around than the link.) | |
| Feb 7 at 15:51 | comment | added | Greg Parker | Now does anyone know the photographers name? | |
| Feb 7 at 15:47 | comment | added | Greg Parker | Opps, hit enter to soon. I'm so glad I posted this, to see another broader image and a name is just mind blowing, again WOW. | |
| Feb 7 at 15:46 | comment | added | Greg Parker | WOW - the picture I posted is an uncropped glass negative in my position. | |
| Feb 7 at 15:37 | history | edited | sophit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7 at 14:06 | comment | added | Portree Kid | @sophit yes but faaaaar better quality. Presumably same series and this one is a close up | |
| Feb 7 at 13:57 | comment | added | sophit | @PortreeKid: perfectly spotted 😄 But then this picture has actually already been published... | |
| Feb 7 at 13:28 | comment | added | Portree Kid | fokker-history.com/en-gb/d-ii#&gid=1175965900&pid=17 Emil Werner also seems to be unhappy about a missing button. | |
| Feb 7 at 11:40 | history | edited | sophit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7 at 11:39 | comment | added | sophit | @U_flow 😄 I'll update the answer 😬 | |
| Feb 7 at 11:14 | comment | added | U_flow | The missing button is the reason for his unhappiness :) | |
| Feb 7 at 7:36 | history | edited | sophit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7 at 7:25 | history | answered | sophit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |